Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

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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

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

Expression Stage
I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.

NINA SIMONE

I’m just human, I have faults like anyone.
NINA SIMONE
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.

NINA SIMONE

Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage.
NINA SIMONE
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

NINA SIMONE

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
NINA SIMONE

Pursue
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.

NINA SIMONE

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
NINA SIMONE

Singer
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

NINA SIMONE

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
NINA SIMONE
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

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
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

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

Equipment Particular
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

NINA SIMONE

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
NINA SIMONE
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.

NINA SIMONE

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
NINA SIMONE
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

NINA SIMONE

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
NINA SIMONE
Desegregation is a joke.

NINA SIMONE

Desegregation is a joke.
NINA SIMONE

Segregation
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.

NINA SIMONE

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
NINA SIMONE
It 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 SIMONE

It 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 SIMONE
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.

NINA SIMONE

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
NINA SIMONE
Don’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 SIMONE

Don’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 SIMONE

Singing

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