Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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 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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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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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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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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I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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