Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
NINA SIMONEIt’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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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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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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I 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.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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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 a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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