My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
NINA SIMONEWe have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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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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I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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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 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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What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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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’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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