I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
NINA SIMONEI was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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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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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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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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