It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONEIt was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.
NINA SIMONEI don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
NINA SIMONEJazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
NINA SIMONEYou can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.
NINA SIMONEIt’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONEMy singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
NINA SIMONEI’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONEYou 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 SIMONEI would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONEYou have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONEDon’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 SIMONETo be young, gifted and black!
NINA SIMONEI’m sorry that I did not become the world’s first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
NINA SIMONEI 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 SIMONEI 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 SIMONEGreed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
NINA SIMONE