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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

Nina Simone

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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Equipment Myself Particular Thinking
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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Different Myself Thinking
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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Alive Chance Dreams Feeling Myself
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
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Crazy Drive Home Myself World
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
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Change Known Question Sanity Togetherness
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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Easy Feeling Life Myself People
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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Day Demand Myself Perfection Practice
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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Alone Feeling Listening Myself People
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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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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Instrument Myself Play
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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Day Myself People Politics Singer
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.
NINA SIMONE

Fly Myself Old Sun World
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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Burden Gift Music Myself Remember
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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Couple Excitement Intense Love Myself Reading
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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Home Name Sound Stage
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
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Art Music Rule

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

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