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 SIMONEMusic 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
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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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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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When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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I’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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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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