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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
Heartache
Ahead
Sorrow
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Love
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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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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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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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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'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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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 love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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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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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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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'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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