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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
Nina Simone
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Nina Simone
Age: 75 †
Born: 1933
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: April 21
Composer
Jazz Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
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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 try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
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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'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
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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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Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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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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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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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
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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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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
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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 only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
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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 tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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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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Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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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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