“I am calling on all citizens with access to unreleased records pertaining to illegal, unconstitutional, or immoral government activities to return those records to their rightful owners, the American people.” PeopleGovernmentRecordsReturnCitizensCallingActivityAccessOwnersIllegalImmoralUnconstitutional Author:Ryan Shapiro
“As Harvard historian of science Peter Galison has demonstrated, the universe of classified knowledge now far exceeds the universe of unclassified knowledge. That's a staggering thought. There is far more classified knowledge in the world than unclassified. And that disparity grows all the time.” WorldUniverseGrowsHistorianPeterExceedHarvardStaggeringDisparity Author:Ryan Shapiro
“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.” WritingBelieveWholeSongOrderI BelieveLevelsCreativityStandardsPerformancesDefinitionsPopsPop MusicHigh LevelPopular SongHigh Standards Author: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.” ThinkingTryingHardDifficultWalksStandardsPressureMaking Money Author:Nina Simone
“The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.” ShowsMy OwnStandardsPressureConvictionShow BusinessFickle Author:Nina Simone
“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.” WantedGrowsChanceAttentionHappenedLuckyFocusedRight Time Author:Nina Simone
“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.” HumansKindMatterTodayHuman BeingsSticksMood Author:Nina Simone
“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.” PeopleIfsKindDoneWholeRecordsConceptsPerformancesAll KindsRhythmChords Author:Nina Simone
“As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the big jazz stars, both now and in the past...how shall I say it? These guys are as great as Bach, Beethoven; all of them. People don't know it yet. If jazz survives and is put on a pedestal as an art form, the same as classical music has been through the years, a hundred years from now the kids will know who they were, with that kind of respect.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsKindHas BeensArtBigsKidsPastFormGuyStarsPlayerHundredConcernedJazzPianoOscarsClassical MusicPedestalThrough The Years Author:Nina Simone
“Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.” IfsWorldArtArtistPayAttentionMusic IsBeing TrueBe True To YourselfTrue To Yourself Author:Nina Simone