I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONEI don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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Music is the center of my life.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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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