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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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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.
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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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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 don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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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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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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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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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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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 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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It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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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 love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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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'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. So you're the honky, she said, who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
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