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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
Nina Simone
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Nina Simone
Age: 75 †
Born: 1933
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: April 21
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Jazz Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
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North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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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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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
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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 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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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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