I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONEFunk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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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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Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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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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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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