Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Nina Simonewas an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist who worked in a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJazz Singer
Date of Birth21 February 1933
CityTyron, NC
CountryUnited States of America
music people choices
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.
people naked kind
The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
music white people
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
thinking people black
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
music rights people
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
people black alive
It's a good time for black people to be alive.
fun people feels
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
heart people soul
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it
life-is-short people how-you-feel
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.
heard met remember sing wore
Every person I ever met who heard her sing could remember what they wore and what she wore (on that occasion).
american-musician love man music pay sea
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat-a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
doctor
You know, I am a doctor of music.
affair anymore intensive love
I had a very intensive love affair from 1994 to 1995. It was like a volcano, so I don't want that anymore for a while.
chuckle died laugh
Before she died we were able to laugh and chuckle about a lot of things.