Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
People
Reflect
Logical
Communication
Lived
Times
Feelings
Part
Music

More quotes by Nina Simone

Image
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
Nina Simone
Image
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
Nina Simone
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
Nina Simone
Image
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
Image
To be young, gifted and black!
Nina Simone
Image
When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
Nina Simone
Image
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
Image
Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
Nina Simone
Image
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
Nina Simone
Image
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
Nina Simone
Image
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
Image
I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
Nina Simone
Image
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
Nina Simone
Image
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
Nina Simone
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
Nina Simone
Image
It's a good time for black people to be alive.
Nina Simone