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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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Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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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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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 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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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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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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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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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