It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONEI know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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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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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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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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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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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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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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