I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONEI feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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 made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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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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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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