There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONEI have a cultured manner of speaking.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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 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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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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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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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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 heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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