Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
NINA SIMONEYou have to learn to get up from the table when love is not 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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Music is the center of my life.
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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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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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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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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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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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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