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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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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 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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Desegregation is a joke.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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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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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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 had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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I love to travel to hear different kinds of 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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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 was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.
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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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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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I don't like to go to strange places.
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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 made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be
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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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