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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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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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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 don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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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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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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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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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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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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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