Black Quote by Nina Simone Download Open image “Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.” — Nina Simone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black Black people Classical music Jazz Music Music is People Racism Term White
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
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks. — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone… — Pharoah Sanders Copy Share Image
Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist. — John Coltrane 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
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There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's… — John Boyega Copy Share Image