I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONEMusic is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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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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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Music is the center of my life.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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