Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
NINA SIMONEI think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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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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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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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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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things – all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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 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 can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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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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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
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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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