Nina Simone Quotes

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

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

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

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.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.

I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.

Many times I feel different like a different person.

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

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

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

When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.

Music is the center of my life.

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

I don't like to go to strange places.

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.

I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.

I can read and arrange, but I can't write.

I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.

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

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.