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Desegregation is a joke.

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
Brotherhood
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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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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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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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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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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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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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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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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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