Nina Simone Quotes
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I'm just human, I have faults like anyone
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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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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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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I don't like to go to strange places.
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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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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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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
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By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.
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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 applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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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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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it
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Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.
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I'm a real rebel with a cause.
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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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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 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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The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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'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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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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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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