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I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.

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
Bach
Composer
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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'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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I don't like to go to strange places.
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I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
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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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When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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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 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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I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
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Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
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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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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all I think most of them are going to die.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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