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.
NINA SIMONEFunk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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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 would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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