Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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The 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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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