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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
Prelude
Heartache
Ahead
Sorrow
Goal
Love

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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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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 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 job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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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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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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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 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 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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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