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. Nina Simone More Quotes by Nina Simone More Quotes From Nina Simone I don't like to go to strange places. Nina Simone strange-places strange I love to travel to hear different kinds of music. Nina Simone different-kinds different kind I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf. Nina Simone deaf loud guitar I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school. Nina Simone piano years school As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very sheltered existence. Even though I heard blues and gospel on the radio sometimes, it was always back to the piano and study and give recitals. Nina Simone training piano giving 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. Nina Simone piano eight school 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. Nina Simone form somewhere-else want I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear! Nina Simone me you freedom fear Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream. Nina Simone like coffee sound sometimes It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live. Nina Simone reflect live duty artist I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva. Nina Simone diva blues singer As a political weapon, it has helped me for 30 years defend the rights of American blacks and third-world people all over the world, to defend them with protest songs. To move the audience to make them conscious of what has been done to my people around the world. Nina Simone me political people world You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society. Nina Simone street you society racism At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't think you can help but be involved. Nina Simone day think you time To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense. Nina Simone me black beautiful people I think that the artists who don't get involved in preaching messages probably are happier - but you see, I have to live with Nina, and that is very difficult. Nina Simone live see think you You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good. Nina Simone good you anger time I didn't get interested in music. It was a gift from God. Nina Simone gift get music god My daughter is in more competition with me. I never wanted to be bigger than my mother or to challenge her. Nina Simone me competition daughter mother Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can't be found on any instrument. That's like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world. Nina Simone me you black-and-white black
