I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
NINA SIMONEI know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
NINA SIMONETo most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
NINA SIMONEMy 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 SIMONEMany times I feel different like a different person.
NINA SIMONEJazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONEYou don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONETomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
NINA SIMONEI think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
NINA SIMONEWhat is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
NINA SIMONEThat’s a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
NINA SIMONEI was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
NINA SIMONEI’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONEHow 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 SIMONETalent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
NINA SIMONEMusic 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 SIMONEI was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
NINA SIMONE