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To be young, gifted and black!
Nina Simone
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Nina Simone
Age: 75 †
Born: 1933
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: April 21
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Jazz Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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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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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 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 think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in 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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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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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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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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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I don't like to go to strange places.
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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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 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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