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Nina Simone (/ˈniːnə sɪˈmoʊn/; born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement. Simone employed a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.

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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.

Attention, Came, Chance, Focused, Happened, Lucky

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Get Up, Learn, Love Is, Served, Table, Tables

Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.

Different, Might, Mood, Tomorrow, Voice

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

America, Important, Music, Protest, Think, Thinking

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

Albums, Choose, Grew Up, Material, Pour, Song

I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.

Black, Institute, Philadelphia, Racism, Six, Time

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.

Cave, Forever, Situation, Thinking, Vaccines

This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

Dream, Kissing, Mandela, Meet, Nelson, Years

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.

Dream, Forward, Look, Looks, Shows

Music is the center of my life.

Center, Life, Music, Music Is

I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.

Different, Different Kinds, Kind, Kinds, Music, Travel

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.

Choices, Heard, Music, People, Studying

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

Dirt, Jazz, Mean, Music, Play

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.

Communication, Feelings, Music, Part, People, Times

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

Life, Music, Thinking, Way

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

Deaf, Guitar, Guitars, Loud

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

Cultured, Manner, Speaking

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.

French, Names, Sound, Sounds, Stage

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Excuse, Hero, Heroes, Knowing, People, Young

My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.

Expression, Play, Voice, Singing, Merely

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