Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
NINA SIMONEThe allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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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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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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