Music is the center of my life.
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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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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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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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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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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 feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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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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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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How 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.
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