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.
NINA SIMONESlavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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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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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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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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