My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all… — 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
