I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONEI’m a real rebel with a cause.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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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 was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Music is the center of my life.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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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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