I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
NINA SIMONEI 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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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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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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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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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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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