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Desegregation is a joke.

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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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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
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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 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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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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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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 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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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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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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