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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
Heartache
Ahead
Sorrow
Goal
Love
Prelude

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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 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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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. So you're the honky, she said, who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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I don't like to go to strange places.
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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 tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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Desegregation is a joke.
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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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 can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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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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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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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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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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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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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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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