How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
NINA SIMONEI tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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.
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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.
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Music is the center of my life.
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The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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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.
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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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.
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I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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’m a real rebel with a cause.
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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.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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