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
chuckle died laugh
Before she died we were able to laugh and chuckle about a lot of things.
money particular sing
I am particular about the seating of the audience-also about how much money they pay-but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?
romantic heart blow
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
music joy jazz
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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.
faults humans
I'm just human, I have faults like anyone
music rights people
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
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.
singing done singers
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.
music song misunderstood
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?