I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONEThe allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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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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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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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel through music. Whew you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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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.
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules. It’s hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I’d rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I’ll leave it to them.
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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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 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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