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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.

Nina Simone

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
NINA SIMONE

Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
NINA SIMONE

Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
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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Difficult Hard Money Rule Standard Yourself
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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Myself Place Strange Time Travel
That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Musician Study
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 SIMONE

Description Invention Music Myself Play Thinking Way
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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Children Gift Help People
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 SIMONE

Feeling Moments Music Vibration World Yourself
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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Abolish Slave Thinking Way
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
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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Music Myself
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
NINA SIMONE

Music Myself People Play
Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music One Liner
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
NINA SIMONE

Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE

Doctor Music Myself Yourself

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