Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (Montreux 1976)
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Live At Montreux 1976
Lyrics
I wish I knew how
It would feel to be free
I wish I could break
All the chains holding me
I wish I could say
All the things that I should to say
Say 'em loud say 'em clear
For the whole round world to hear
I wish I could share
All the love that's in my heart
Remove all the bars
That keep us apart
I wish you could know
What it means to be me
Then you'd see and agree
Everyone should be free
I wish I could give
All I'm longin' to give
I wish I could live
Like I'm longin' to live
I wish I could do
All the things that I can do
Though I'm way overdue
I'd be starting anew.
I wish I could be like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be
If I found out I could fly
I'd soar to the sun
And look down at the sea
And I sing 'cause I know
She doesn’t play the music, she is the music. Beautiful
I agree
EXactly
I wish everyone could understand... how seemingly simple, but absurdly difficult that performance was to pull off... Brilliant, absolutely magnetic, an undeniably unique talent.
Yess! indeed a talented Tranny!
It is almost other worldly. No it is other worldly. It takes you to the absolute basics of humanity. We al all brothers and sisters. Thank you Nina, you took me to a better place
You are so absolutely right, I would would only add, she's not pulling it off- the only way to do that is completely in the moment and with complete and utter exposure...in some ways, the exact opposite of trying to pull anything off.
She is truly incredible. Ahead of her time in so many ways.
oh we do understand!! it's out of this world..
A brilliant pianist let’s not forget
i love her!
And a great Voice..
EXACTLY. SHE NOT ONLY SUNG THIS BUT SHE ACTED IT OUT AND WAS A VERY GOOD PIANIST AS WELL. SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN MOVIES.
She was an excellent performer. Bipolar, but a brillant performer. I love her music.
Yes. She was a true master of the piano. The fact that she was also able to sing was a bonus.
Let's take a moment to realise how she killed that intro 🔥
Does someone have That note?
Yup
She's a murderer then
It's brilliant--she's astounding.
LIKE...FORREAL
This is a rare snapshot of the true potential of a humans ability to connect fully with themselves in the moment. There is a tangible experience at 3.40 when she actually acknowledges it and says ‘the spirit’s moving now’. She is completely at one with her breath, the piano, her mind, the room. She absolutely goes at that feeling, brave as fuck and completely into herself. It very might be one of the most important videos on the CZcams
Also I’m high
@@Flyteband I totally agree with you
@@Flyteband And I'm also high
🤣 laughed so hard at the "also I am high". I totally agree whithout being high, got to find out what that says about me.
It’s always been my favorite moment, right before she puts her hand up and keeps it going, something happens after the “if we ain’t, we’re murderous” line and clash of the piano, something let’s go and after that, it’s all positivity and I always laugh at how extraordinary the moment is
Anyway, had the same thought , and I’m high with ya partner
Some Nina's songs sounds like rainy afternoons in a sunny city.
Thaianne Julia that’s a very wonderful description to describe Nina’s songs! ❤️💙
this is so accurate it is scary
@@romestant it is indeed
♥️♥️♥️
You just described here on a whole other level ... And I defenitly agree !!
the way spirit moved through this woman... wow.
i can feel the pain, the rage, the love, the bliss.
Right on !
Unreal isnt it!
Magic❤
She didn’t fear, she was revered. She didn’t follow, she created. She didn’t despair, she inspired.
Sadly her life had its fair share of despair because of her race. And 50 years on black people STILL have to fight for equality.
And this is what people my age today should be looking up to🔥👑. My gosh she makes me speechless.
@@crazypianolady see you missed her point of inner transcending Race, Religion ect...w/in Her Knowing Essence. No offence to You w/ your expression.
@dustyblue Yeah, none of that negates the comment you're responding to. The fact is she faced heavy racism and that Black people still face heavy racism, although on a less severe level, today. Read your comment again and realise that you're talking about a Black woman born in 1930s America. You're not smart. Her identity as a Black woman and the struggles she has faced due to that are interwoven into music. Get out of here with that pseudo-deep nonsense. What's next? You don't see colour?
She was and still is such an inspiration and an aspiration to every generations. She is one and a few in between I will call a legend ❤❤❤❤
I love her!!! My Mother played her all the time, being dark I was shunned when I was younger, by whites and blacks and my Mother would show me her on albums and play her music and tell me “ Only a Dark Woman can be talented, strong and intelligent,only a Nina, and you my chocolate masterpiece are a Nina”. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love this Woman as much as I love my Mother. 😢
I love your mother for that. God bless you both.
❤❤❤
Nina was unapologetically African in her soul and she died with a broken heart trying to prove that to a ppl who didn’t ever want her to be that. She was her black self to the core. Love her soul her spirit and her♥️. The black woman is royal. RIP Legend
Black is beautiful ❤
Amen 🙏🏾
Uses the full range of the piano...juxtaposition of forte and piano...accents on off beats/syncopation...throws in a little speech into her singing...This is just SO good.
Andrew Cotts I don’t know wtf all that shit means, this sounds great though.
I know this...stride piano
Ulises Loera Look it up!
I appreciate this comment ‼️
@@thedon.32forte and piano is loud and quiet
“The shadow that she casts across her blues represents not so much what it is to live without freedom as what it is to live with the fear of losing the sense of self that allows freedom to exist.” - Dave Marsh.
Did I expect to wake up and have a Nina Simone performance move me to tears? No, but here we are.
Nina Simone is and always will be in a class of her own. She is unique,a and nobody could ever copy her.
True!
true!
Kelvin Wilson she is clever I love it
true！
Yeah
Nina was a true genius. Not like these modern day, so-called, genius but a actual genius.
I can't stop replaying the ending... Claiming her freedom with the rush of keys taking her flight. Amazing
I've listened to this so many times this time was so powerful because I hadn't really noticed before. Powerful enough to make me shed a tear. I know that feeling of freedom I just seen and it feels great.
I was a ballerina for a long time and I never realized those swan arms. She plays those keys like a bird, like a swan, like a warrior. God please let me take a whirl with this lady on high. 😊
Why has it taken 59 years to find Nina Symone? My life feels better since I have.
Not just one of the most important female pianists of the last 100 years, one of the most important pianists period.
Definitely one of the greatest performance of all time,.
You are free Nina. R.I.P. the only singer who can make me cry my head off even hearing her most happiest songs.
Same here. ♥
Deepthoughts Herenow me too! ❤️❤️🤍❤️❤️
same!
roselr5 🎼🎼🎼🎼💥
Omg me too!! Preach
The chord progression is hypnotic. She could go on and on forever and it would still be interesting
She and piano are same body and spirit. Amazing!
And she's just speaking her mind & The Lord's of course
Is it normal to feel a sense of sadness when listening to this song ?
yes, it is! i cry
yes we live in such times where we yearn for all of us to experience peace and freedom...thanks for sharing , sweetheart you have heart!
Yes,I know I do..
With most of Ninas songs :(
Yes. Makes you feel good and sad at the same time.
This is one of the greatest songs that there ever was and that there ever will be
how and what she sang ! the older I get the more I think she was never free and that's what makes this song so powerful..
I wish i was born then to see this,
And that, folks.. is how to take the stage!
Tim Hopper you said it son!
And how to leave it!
And slay it with heart and passion
You said it!
Her life and work is one of the many tragedies of racial prejudices in the 20th Century. She was truly a genius.
When my mum was riddled with bone and brain cancer she asked for this to be played at her funeral. The stage she was at meant she couldn't remember the artist or name of the tune. it was a plead, "come on my boy, you must know what i mean. The BBC film programme.....". This is the version that get played.
Wonderful
Jon Newman bless you.
Sorry to you both for that painful experience.
Thank you, you're very kind. Periodically, I can't help myself from listening to it again. It always makes me weep. The other music was Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Thallis, a brass version of Jerusalem and I vow to yeah me country, Jupiter by Holst.
All music from my childhood. I am blessed/lucky to have been in a family that played all kinds of music, along with the background chit chat of BBC radio 4.
Thank you for that. In the midst of the enormity of the web; sometimes a kind word is really prescient and comforting. Thank you again 772 Ninja.
I wish you had more peace and freedom in your life Ms.Simone. Thank you for giving us your wonderful self. ❤
It’s amazing how she was able to take all of the deep pain she carried and transformed into this awe-inspiring performance.
Nina Simone had to struggle . She was not free to achieve her dream of playing Bach at The Carnegie Hall most probably because of her race. Such a passionate , gifted musician,
But I think it also had to do with her knowledge that there was more to music than even the deepest beauties of the European Classical repertoire. It was why, during the period of her most concentrated studies along these lines, she started playing nightclubs and offering audiences a wholly different side of her sensibility; and not by way of selling out, but as much on her terms as any artist, even established ones, could muster back then.
Yeah she was refused entry to the academy of arts and music or something like that because of her very non privileged white appearance and background. All she wanted was to fulfill her ambition to bashout a bit of Bach at Carnegie hall with her parents in the audience.
@@scotarg1973 now days you can just rent it out for enough $
@@Tasutpen She played at nightclubs and jazz venues because she couldn't afford to eat otherwise and wasn't able to make money playing classical gigs because of her race. She also stated multiple times that she deeply hated having to be pulled away from her true passion of classical music purely because of her race, don't romanticize her struggle. The whole reason we know her as Nina Simone and not Eunice Waymon is because she went by a pseudonym while performing because she was ashamed to have to be singing at bars to get by, and just so happened to get famous off that genre and pseudonym.
The thought just hit me a minute ago that this woman would've been the happiest plum ever if the world let her play her piano the way she wanted to.
Found this GEM searching 'I Wish'... Choked me up
This song sings my soul. Those raised by narcissists feel the burden of never truly being free from emotional turmoil of knowing their parents aren’t capable of love. “I wish I could break all the things that bind us apart” ....and now I “sing because I know what it means to be free” now I have a family of my own, I can’t find justice in how I was treated, but I find peace in knowing I broke the cycle. My child will be nurtured and supported in every way. I have no family other than my husband and child but I’m free to move anywhere in the country or out of it.
You're a brave loving soul. Many blessings to you and your family :)
She was HERSELF in front of the everyone. And we’ve been blessed to have the opportunity to witness her.
Une grande dame Nina avec sa voix magnifique et ces doigts qui coure sur ce piano magique🎹♥️😘👏👏👏🇨🇵🎩🌻🌺🌹
Love love love her singing style! I wish girls who wish to be singers one day could get tie chance to listen to her. No super high notes, no vibrato craze, no show off. Just pure heart and soul. Honest singing. Raw and crude.
and boys
"I already know
I found out
How it feels
Not to be chained
To anything
To any race
To any faith
To anybody
To any creed
To any horse
To any....anything
I know how it feels to be free!"
I think this part is the best of the song. Thanks for wrote it!
Conciliator , this last stanza is so inspiring. She must have had an insight into what it means to live without chains.
I cried.
Me too
And me
I'm a total mess...crying...she's perfect...
You can literally see the creative ticks Nina Simone gets.
dehydration does weird things to the body
Hard to believe she's been gone 20 years already. She was a musical genius...and her music will be played centuries from now in the same way Beethoven and Mozart are still played today.
Good Lord… I’ve come back to this version of this song dozens, scores, of times over the last decade and it never ceases to fulfill. Nina connects to that God-Ur place which is so pure it always comforts. No matter how I’m suffering, this performance seems to speak exactly to what I need.
She is so beyond talented she’s simply just the purest energy in the universe through song
LYRICS:
I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
I wish I could break all the chains of steel binding me
I wish I could say all the things that I can say when I'm relaxed
I'm restarting anew
I wish I could be like a bird in the sky (don't leave me)
How sweet it would be to find that I could fly
I'd soar to the sun and look down at the sea
Then I'd sing because I know how it feels to be free
Then I'd sing because I know how it feels to be free
I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart
I wish I could break all things that bind us apart
I wish you could know what it means to be me
And you'd see, you'd agree
everybody should be free (because if we ain't we're murderers)
I wish I could be like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be if I could find that I could fly
I'd soar to the sun, look down at the sea
Man, I know, yes I know
Oh yeah, the spirit is moving now
[humming]
I know, got news for you, I already know
Jonathan Livingston Seagull ain't got nothing on me
Free, free, free, free
I'm free, and I know it
Don't wanna be a
And I show it
But I'm still free
And believe in me, it's alright
And I'd sing, sing, sing
Cause I would know
I already know
I already know
I found out
how it feels
not to be chained
to anything
to any race
to any faith
to anybody
to any creed
to any hopes
to any-anything
I know how it feels to be free
Muchas gracias ❤️
thanks for sharing the lyrics.
there is and will forever be only one nina simone. we didn't deserve her, but i'm so thankful i get to live in a world she and this exist
Probably one of the best performances ever recorded. Nina is simply superb in this video!
She lives it that what makes her fantastic.
@@VincentWilliams007 I couldn't agree more
My vocabulary is inadequate to do justice to this magic.
Wow!! Awesome performance!
To look at Nina Simone here, her West African heritage is so apparent!
Possibly.., quite possibly Senegal or Guinea !
Blood is thicker than water!
Rest in Power Aunty!
👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬!
Eine wundervolle Künstlerin ✌️🌹
Some lucky humans are just born with it -Talent. The rest of us must be content to watch.
This is one of those videos that I watch every so often, just to get my inner-self back in a straight line. It's a masterclass in every sense, like motivational therapy. As Jesse L Peterson says: ''That's ah-maah-zin!''
My God, I was 15 years old for the first time I've heard Nina, on TV, on this exact presentation. And I still get chills when I see it. No words. No words.
Lucas Censi - me too
She is beautiful! Oh Lord! What a song!
She was the greatest musician ever
Love how she was authentically herself, from the moment she walked on stage. Bless her
All time legend 🙏🏾❤️❤️🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
2:47 gave me goosebumps
Александар Дмитров
Yes, it reminds me of "For your freedom and ours!"
Beautiful hands. Beautiful performance. Beautiful sentiment.
She's freestyling it here. Amazing.
I always forget to breath when I listen to Nina. Every dang time...
Love and salute
If dictionary's had sound this would be the definition of the word beautful!
Fully agree with you
I love the fact that she is natural, no weave ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Not being allowed to study classical music on the conservatory because of the color of her skin, mistreated by her partner and much more.
She put all her happiness , anger, frustrations and sorrow in her music and it shows.
Glad you where here Nina.
THIS IS AMAZING OMG
Tragic how wonderfully talented and persecuted she was simultaneously
This lady was AmAZing!!!
I was blessed to see the man who wrote this song Dr Billy Taylor perform in a jazz club in NYC circa 1968 !! He founded Jazzmobile !! Nina Simone's rendition is incredible she feels the lyrics!!!
Holy Shit - She was a world class Jazz instrumentalist too.
I did not know that.
What a legend.
Luv and Peace.
If this is not the greatest performance of all time ever!
Then I don’t know what is!
It’s perfect 👍🏿
I agree. I come back to this so special performance, so frequently. Blissful.
An incredible artist, pioneer and a true force of Nature.........
What an exit!!! Def best ending to a song, and wow, the power of the woman's as she stood and thanked the crowd... Nothing but no-one was getting in her way! Just awesome! 🖤
She's got such a great history. Never got her due. Listen to Nina, you'll feel free.
Thanks for reading the comment. I'm very old, and only knew about singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday; whom my family adored along with the great jazz groups from Ellington to Basie and Miles. For some reason, we never heard of Nina, an artist bridging the gap between those artists and the Mayfield's and Stevie's and Prince's of later times. I was glad to see your post get so many views and comments!
Happy birthday to Nina Simone who would've celebrated her 85th birthday today, the legendary performer who sang a mix of jazz, blues and folk music in the 1950's and '60s, later enjoying a career resurgence in the '80s, was also staunch Civil Rights activist
brilliant
in 1993 when The Point of No Return came out heavily featuring her music, it brought her to a new generation of fans. I include myself in this group. I started buying her albums and CDs. I was traveling to Southern California in the summer of 2001 to visit family and I found out that she was playing the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. Being able to see her live less than two years before her death is one of the highlights of my life.
LagiNaLangAko23 yes our history is still very fresh and there are still men and woman alive who suffered absolute oppression and some of us brush that aside, it’s cold tbh. To be considered a second class citizen at all would be terrible... I feel for those folks but I am honestly proud of them more than anything especially those who fought for their freedom to express and show that they are also human. Rip to those who where and are murdered because of skin color and ideologies. Rip...
@LagiNaLangAko23 yeah, democrats held on for a long, long time.. hell they still trying to bring it back
She takes me somewhere else. Just pure magic. Thanks Nina....❤️
She is such a legend. So much emotion, energy, spirit, and hope in one song.
Nina Simone! A great pianist!
This woman was amazing and beautiful, there's no bad days when you listen to her music.
man..that woman..How define? Great? Fantastic? no she is much more..i have no words..
THIS IS ART
Just wanted to hear blackbird on more time and here i am never watched this performance but this i say puts tears in my eyes she’s angelic
Superb ! You can feel the classically trained pianist in her when she accents her notes just right where required
She was perfect..
I cannot get how people can give "don´t like" votes to this..
And forty years and more,the lyrics,the soulful melody carries on..I'm 60..I live in NZ 💞 and we love Nina ❤
What a pianist 🙏💗
Amazing icon. She poured out her soul through her music. I love the way she looks. ..so beautifully African!
Yes I agree. She is one of those rare people whose beauty seems to have an extra dimension to it.
Sublime.
One of my all-time favorites.
The highest priestess of soul
What a performer. Makes you want to jump up and say YES.
That ending... WHOOO!
She plays and sings with so much emotion and power from her soul it travels across time and hits as hard as ever today!!!
Passionate singing, fantastic piano
The true epitome of an recording artist!! I feel like you can't call yourself an artist if you can't play, arrange, and just put your soul into your craft.
Max Respect to Nina Simone ,bless her soul!!
Amazing 😍
Nobody has the power to make me feel my own pain, and theirs like Nina Simone.
The more I see this video, the more meaning it gets.
Love it👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾