I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
NINA SIMONEI know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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Music is the center of my life.
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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 love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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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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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 have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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