I have a cultured manner of speaking.
NINA SIMONESince I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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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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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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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?
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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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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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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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