I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
NINA SIMONEI tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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