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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
Nina Simone
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Nina Simone
Age: 75 †
Born: 1933
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: April 21
Composer
Jazz Pianist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
Love
Prelude
Heartache
Ahead
Sorrow
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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it
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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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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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I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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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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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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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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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