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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.
Nina Simone
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Nina Simone
Age: 75 †
Born: 1933
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: April 21
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Jazz Pianist
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Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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More quotes by Nina Simone
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
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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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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I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
Nina Simone
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
I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
Nina Simone
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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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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 believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.
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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
Nina Simone
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Nina Simone
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
Nina Simone
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
Nina Simone
I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
Nina Simone
