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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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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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I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be
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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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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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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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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 think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all I think most of them are going to die.
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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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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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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 don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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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 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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Desegregation is a joke.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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