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I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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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 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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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 know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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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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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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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 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 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 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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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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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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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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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