Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
NINA SIMONEI know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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 more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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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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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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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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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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