Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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
Way
Like
Italy
Africa
Places
Strange
Five
Hours
More quotes by Nina Simone
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
Nina Simone
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
Nina Simone
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
Nina Simone
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
Nina Simone
This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.
Nina Simone
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
Nina Simone
I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
Nina Simone
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
Nina Simone
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
Nina Simone
I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
Nina Simone
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
Nina Simone
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.
Nina Simone
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it
Nina Simone
I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
Nina Simone
You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
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
Desegregation is a joke.
Nina Simone
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
Nina Simone
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.
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
