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Nina Simone Quotes

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Desegregation is a joke  (Nina Simone Quotes) I’m a real rebel with a cause  (Nina Simone Quotes) Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music  (Nina Simone Quotes) What is love but a prelude to sorrow... with heartache ahead for your goal  (Nina Simone Quotes) There’s no excuse for the young  (Nina Simone Quotes) This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it  (Nina Simone Quotes) I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat  (Nina Simone Quotes) I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music  (Nina Simone Quotes) I think it’s fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy  (Nina Simone Quotes) 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  (Nina Simone Quotes) Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking  (Nina Simone Quotes) Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was  (Nina Simone Quotes) Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing  (Nina Simone Quotes) When I was studying... there weren’t any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist  (Nina Simone Quotes) To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music  (Nina Simone Quotes) There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were  (Nina Simone Quotes) I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel  (Nina Simone Quotes) 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  (Nina Simone Quotes) Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home  (Nina Simone Quotes) You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times  (Nina Simone Quotes) Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel  (Nina Simone Quotes) What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did  (Nina Simone Quotes) I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone  (Nina Simone Quotes) I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested  (Nina Simone Quotes) I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer  (Nina Simone Quotes) Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you  (Nina Simone Quotes) It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day... and I’m feeling good  (Nina Simone Quotes) 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  (Nina Simone Quotes) 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  (Nina Simone Quotes) 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  (Nina Simone Quotes)
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