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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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
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Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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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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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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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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 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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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I'm feeling good I'm feeling good
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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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