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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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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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My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.
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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 love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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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 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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
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