Blow Quote by Nina Simone

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

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

— Nina Simone

I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

— Nina Simone

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

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

— Nina Simone

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

There's no excuse for the young...

— Nina Simone

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

— Nina Simone

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

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

— Nina Simone

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

— Nina Simone

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky,"…

— Nina Simone