Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head. — 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
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
It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the… — 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
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
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it… — 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
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many… — 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
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
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… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom,… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . .… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that… — 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
