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
world made
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
new-day feel-good feelings
It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.
music thinking way
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
people black alive
It's a good time for black people to be alive.
dream kissing years
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.
faults humans
I'm just human, I have faults like anyone
black young gifted
To be young, gifted and black!
freedom years excellence
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
music rights people
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
sorry thinking black
I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
african-american no-excuses young
There's no excuse for the young...
effort dying aversion
That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.
music mean play
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
love goal heartache
What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.