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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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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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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I love to travel to hear different kinds of 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 only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
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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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I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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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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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
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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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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I know I'm different, but I don't think about 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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