Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it.… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have.… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
