To be young, gifted and black!
NINA SIMONEMy name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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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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