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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
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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North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
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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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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.
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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 can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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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'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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