I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
NINA SIMONEJazz 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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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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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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