I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONEFrom the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
More Nina Simone Quotes
-
-
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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 -
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 -
Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn’t recognize my voice.
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 -
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
NINA SIMONE -
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
NINA SIMONE -
My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
NINA SIMONE -
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONE -
When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.
NINA SIMONE -
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
NINA SIMONE -
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
NINA SIMONE -
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
NINA SIMONE -
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
NINA SIMONE -
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
NINA SIMONE