I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONEI have a cultured manner of speaking.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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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 a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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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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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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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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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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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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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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