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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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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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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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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 made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be
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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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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all I think most of them are going to die.
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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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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 don't like to go to strange places.
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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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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