Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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 think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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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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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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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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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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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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