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    Nina Simone

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


    — Nina Simone

    #classical #classical music #dirt #i #jazz

    You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. ↗


    — Nina Simone

    #art

    You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served". ↗


    — Nina Simone

    #love

    It is an artist's duty to reflect the times. ↗


    — Nina Simone

    #music #nina-simone #music

    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. ↗


    — Nina Simone

    #because #being #cave #economic #economic situation

    I'm a real rebel with a cause. ↗


    — Nina Simone

    #i #real #rebel

    Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. ↗


    — Nina Simone

    #classical #classical music #define #jazz #music

    Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. ↗


    — Nina Simone

    #concert #concert pianist #dedicate #his #i

    Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. ↗


    — Nina Simone

    #been #never #slavery #thinking #way

    Desegregation is a joke. ↗


    — Nina Simone






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    Did you know about Nina Simone?

    Simone was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2009. Simone performed and spoke at many civil rights meetings such as at the Selma to Montgomery marches. Simone's music has been featured in soundtracks of various motion pictures and video games including but not limited to The Big Lebowski (1998) Point of No Return (AKA The Assassin 1993)"La Femme Nikita" (film) Notting Hill (1999) Any Given Sunday (1999) The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) Six Feet Under (2001) The Dancer Upstairs (film) (2002) Before Sunset (2004) Cellular (2004) Inland Empire (2006) Miami Vice (2006) Sex and the City (2008) The World Unseen (2008) Revolutionary Road (2008) Watchmen (2009) The Saboteur (2009) Repo Men (2010).

    Born the sixth child of a preacher's family in North Carolina Simone aspired to be a concert pianist. She was approached for a recording by Bethlehem Records and her rendering of "I Loves You Porgy" was a hit in the United States in 1958. When Nina Simone began playing in a small club in Philadelphia to fund her continuing musical education and become a classical pianist Nina Simone was required to sing as well.

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