You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
NINA SIMONEIt’s a good time for black people to be alive.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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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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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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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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