Nina Simone Quotes

So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone, And defacating on your microphone

— Lauryn Hill

I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.

— Monica Ali

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.

— Michel Martin

So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone.

— Lauryn Hill

Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul…

— Hozier

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number…

— Robert Wyatt

I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to…

— Nikki Giovanni

There is a Nina Simone quote, 'It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.' This quote is everything to me and…

— Raye

I definitely grew up to Nina Simone and a lot of Ella Fitzgerald. And I loved Amy Winehouse. I loved that sort…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their…

— Nikki Giovanni

I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone.…

— Alaina Huffman

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were…

— Anonymous

As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae…

— Lindsay Mendez

I loved her music and the fact that she was a classically trained pianist and that her voice was so unique, but…

— India Arie

Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's…

— Talib Kweli

I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I…

— Nikki Giovanni

If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but…

— Lou Doillon

I say that I do soul, R&B music. I have so many influences, from Billie Holiday, Nina Simone to Stevie Wonder and…

— Goapele

You know, and the fact that Nina Simone had to start playing in clubs and sing because her parents had moved north…

— Liz Garbus

Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era…

— India Arie

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal…

— Yael Naim

Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom.

— Dianne Reeves

Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and…

— Michel Martin

I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm…

— Georgia May Jagger

“And when we pressed our heads to each other's hearts how did we not hear Carmen McRae singing? In Angela's fisted hands,…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.

— Hannah Bronfman

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

— Nikki Giovanni

Nina Simone, to me, singing about black culture - she's unparalleled.

— Salim Akil

My heroes: Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Nina Simone.

— Benjamin Clementine

“You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.” -Nina Simone”

— Trista Hendren

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

— Hozier

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or…

— Jose Gonzalez

I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.

— Nikki Giovanni

I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She…

— Nikki Giovanni

I did a project called 'Sing The Truth,' which was a lot of fun. It started out being a celebration of the…

— Dianne Reeves

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from…

— Catherine McCormack

I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find…

— Lou Doillon

I think it all started with Nina Simone. When I was maybe seven or eight, I used to listen to one of…

— Hozier

Ive got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I'm having my make-up put on…

— Natalie Dormer