By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that… — 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
I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was… — 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
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
