It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONESince I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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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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It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
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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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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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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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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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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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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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