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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good
Nina Simone
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Nina Simone
Age: 75 †
Born: 1933
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: April 21
Composer
Jazz Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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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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I don't like to go to strange places.
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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 can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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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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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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 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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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 was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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 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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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