Music is an art and art has its own rules.
NINA SIMONEI tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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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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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Music is the center of my life.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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