There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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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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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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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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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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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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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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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