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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 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 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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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 tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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 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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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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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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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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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