Nina Quotes
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Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.
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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it; it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of "I want to tell the people."
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.
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I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.
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You have to see my show to believe that Im the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet.
