Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
NINA SIMONEI know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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 don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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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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