Many times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONETheory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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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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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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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Music is the center of my life.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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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 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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