It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
NINA SIMONEI’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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