Quote

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

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
Blood
Sure
Something
Believe
Racial
African
Ancient
Memory
Memories

More quotes by Nina Simone

Image
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
Image
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
Image
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
Nina Simone
Image
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
Image
Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.
Nina Simone
Image
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
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 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
Image
I don't like to go to strange places.
Nina Simone
Image
You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
Nina Simone
Image
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.
Nina Simone
Image
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
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
Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?
Nina Simone
Image
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
Image
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
Nina Simone
Image
You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
Nina Simone
Image
I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
Nina Simone
Image
I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
Nina Simone
Image
Many times I feel different like a different person.
Nina Simone