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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
Composer
Jazz Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
Joy
Remember
Music
Long
Burden

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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 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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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 tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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 don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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 only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
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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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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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