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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
Composer
Jazz Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
Different
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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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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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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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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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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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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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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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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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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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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To be young, gifted and black!
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I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
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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 love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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