I have a cultured manner of speaking.
NINA SIMONEGreed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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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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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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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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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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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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