Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
NINA SIMONEI feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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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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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Music is the center of my life.
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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’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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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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