I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
NINA SIMONEFrom the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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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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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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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 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 was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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