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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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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It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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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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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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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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I don't like to go to strange places.
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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be
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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 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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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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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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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
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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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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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