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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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 think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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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 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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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
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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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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in 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 love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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