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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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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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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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good
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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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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 would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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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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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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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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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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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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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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