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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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People
Listen
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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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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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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'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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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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'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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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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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical 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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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