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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
Composer
Jazz Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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Materials
Songs
Choose
Grew
Head
Pour
Song
Album
Albums

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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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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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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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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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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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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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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 tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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