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 Quotes
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
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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 Quotes

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

 American Musician Jazz
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things -- all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play. - Nina Simone Quotes

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things -- all that to me is jazz just as much as the music we play.

Nina Simone

 Jazz
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 Quotes

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

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I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep. - Nina Simone Quotes

I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep.

Nina Simone

 Believe
Before she died we were able to laugh and chuckle about a lot of things. - Nina Simone Quotes

Before she died we were able to laugh and chuckle about a lot of things.

Nina Simone

 
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. - Nina Simone Quotes

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Nina Simone

 American Musician Jazz
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going. - Nina Simone Quotes

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

Nina Simone

 American Musician
I'm a real rebel with a cause. - Nina Simone Quotes

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

Nina Simone

 American Musician
Every person I ever met who heard her sing could remember what they wore and what she wore (on that occasion). - Nina Simone Quotes

Every person I ever met who heard her sing could remember what they wore and what she wore (on that occasion).

Nina Simone

 
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel. - Nina Simone Quotes

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Nina Simone

 American Musician
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