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Nina Simone

"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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"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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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."

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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."

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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."

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"I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off."

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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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"Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home."
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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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"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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"The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough."
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