Many times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONEI’m a real rebel with a cause.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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 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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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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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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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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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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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