Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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 think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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.
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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