Nina Simone Quotes


You know, I am a doctor of music. - 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 heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist. - Nina Simone


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


This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet. - Nina Simone


There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. - Nina Simone


The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough. - Nina Simone


Slowly grows? - Nina Simone


Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. - Nina Simone


Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world. - Nina Simone


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