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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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Thinking

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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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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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 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 don't like to go to strange places.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
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