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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
Music
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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'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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I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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 had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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