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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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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
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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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 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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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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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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