I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
NINA SIMONEYou’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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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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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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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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.
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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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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 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 would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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