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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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Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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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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I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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 don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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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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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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