Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
NINA SIMONE
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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That’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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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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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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I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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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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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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I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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