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 SIMONEI made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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 was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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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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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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