I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
NINA SIMONEYou 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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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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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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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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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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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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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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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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