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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.
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
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Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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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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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
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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 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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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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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 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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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