Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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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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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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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Music is the center of my life.
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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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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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