I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
NINA SIMONEI feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
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It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
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I believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
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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 to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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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 had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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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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