I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
NINA SIMONELife is short. People are not easy to know. They’re not easy to know, so if you don’t tell them how you feel, you’re not going to get anywhere, I feel.
More Nina Simone Quotes
-
-
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 -
Greed 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 -
You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
NINA SIMONE -
My 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 SIMONE -
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
NINA SIMONE -
If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.
NINA SIMONE -
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
NINA SIMONE -
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
NINA SIMONE -
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
NINA SIMONE -
Music is the center of my life.
NINA SIMONE -
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
NINA SIMONE -
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
NINA SIMONE -
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONE -
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
NINA SIMONE -
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
NINA SIMONE