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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
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Jazz Pianist
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North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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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 was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.
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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 love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
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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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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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I don't like to go to strange places.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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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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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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