It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONEJazz 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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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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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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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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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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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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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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