It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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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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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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