I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONEFrom the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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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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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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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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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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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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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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I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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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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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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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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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 don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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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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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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