I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
NINA SIMONEThe 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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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 don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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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 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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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 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 a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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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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