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 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 SIMONEThis is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONEIf I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
NINA SIMONEThe worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
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 SIMONEMusic is an art and art has its own rules.
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 play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.
NINA SIMONEI don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONEIt doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
NINA SIMONEI was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
NINA SIMONEI feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
NINA SIMONEI demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
NINA SIMONEWhat is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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 SIMONEI 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