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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 don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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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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There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
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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 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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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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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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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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 love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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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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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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