Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
NINA SIMONELife 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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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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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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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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Music is the center of my life.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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