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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
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
Goal
Love
Prelude
Heartache
Ahead
Sorrow

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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 think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
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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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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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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 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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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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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'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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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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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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 can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.
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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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