I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
NINA SIMONEI’m a real rebel with a cause.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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