Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
NINA SIMONEI’m a real rebel with a cause.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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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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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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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’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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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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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 feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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