Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
NINA SIMONEI 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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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 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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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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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 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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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