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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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 don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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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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Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
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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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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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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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 look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
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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 rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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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 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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That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
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