Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.
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
Whole
Reluctant
Done
Singer
Life
Singers
Activity
Singing
Thought
Become
Without
More quotes by Nina Simone
When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
Nina Simone
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
Nina Simone
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Nina Simone
There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
Nina Simone
I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
Nina Simone
I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.
Nina Simone
Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
Nina Simone
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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 can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.
Nina Simone
I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
Nina Simone
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
Nina Simone
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.
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
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 if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
Nina Simone
There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
Nina Simone
I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.
Nina Simone
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
Nina Simone
