I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONETheory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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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 know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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 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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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