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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
Composer
Jazz Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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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 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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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
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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 love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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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 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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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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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it
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I don't like to go to strange places.
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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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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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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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