Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Style is what remains once chaos put you down #9 (Eunice Kathleen Waymon, February 21, 1933 (Tryon, USA)–April 21, 2003 (Carry-le-Rouet, France))

"I will never be your clown, (...) God gave me this gift — and I am a genius. I worked at my craft for six to 14 hours a day, I studied and learned through practice. I am not here just to entertain you. But how can I be alive when you are so dead? SING! You owe me. I don’t wear a painted smile on my face, like Louis Armstrong.”
Nina Simone, shouting at a restless nightclub audience in Cannes in 1977, as reported in 'Princess Noire, The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone' by Nadine Cohodas.

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