Nina Simone Quotes
Top 49 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nina Simone
Nina Simone Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Nina Simone on Wise Famous Quotes.
It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be
Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.