At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging… — 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 Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
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
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
The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now -… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I flirt all the time. I like men! I don't think we can do without them. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. — 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
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
