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.
NINA SIMONEI think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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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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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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 don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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