Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
Nina Simone
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Nina Simone
Age: 75 †
Born: 1933
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: April 21
Composer
Jazz Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
Helping
Reflect
Concerned
Duty
Help
Times
Artist
More quotes by Nina Simone
It's a good time for black people to be alive.
Nina Simone
What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.
Nina Simone
You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
Nina Simone
I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep
Nina Simone
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
Nina Simone
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.
Nina Simone
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.
Nina Simone
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
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
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
Nina Simone
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.
Nina Simone
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
Nina Simone
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Nina Simone
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Nina Simone
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.
Nina Simone
That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
Nina Simone
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.
Nina Simone
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
Nina Simone
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. So you're the honky, she said, who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
Nina Simone
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
Nina Simone
