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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.
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
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.
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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 drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
Nina Simone
I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
Nina Simone
I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.
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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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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'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
Nina Simone
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
Nina Simone
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
Nina Simone
