I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
NINA SIMONESince I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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 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 would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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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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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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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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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.
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