I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONEHow do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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