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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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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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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 can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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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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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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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 don't like to go to strange places.
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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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 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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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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