Music is an art and art has its own rules.
NINA SIMONEI play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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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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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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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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Music is the center of my life.
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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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