I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONEMusic is the center of my life.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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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 love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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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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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Music is the center of my life.
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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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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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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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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!
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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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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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