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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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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 love to travel to hear different kinds of 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 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 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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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