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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 think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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 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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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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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