Classical music Quote by Nina Simone

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

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The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity.…

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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

I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to…

— Nina Simone

As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the big jazz…

— Nina Simone

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

— Nina Simone

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either.…

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There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge…

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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

My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in…

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My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

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