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I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
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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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it
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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
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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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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'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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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