If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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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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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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 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 was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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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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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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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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Music is the center of my life.
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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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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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