Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
NINA SIMONEHow can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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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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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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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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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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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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