I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
NINA SIMONEI would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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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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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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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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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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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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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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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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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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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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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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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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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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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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