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.
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’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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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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.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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 demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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