Nina Simone Quotes.
It’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times in which we live.
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.
As a political weapon, it has helped me for 30 years defend the rights of American blacks and third-world people all over the world, to defend them with protest songs. To move the audience to make them conscious of what has been done to my people around the world.
I think that the artists who don’t get involved in preaching messages probably are happier – but you see, I have to live with Nina, and that is very difficult.
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.
Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways – it’s infinite. It’s like God… you know?
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I’m lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
To be young, gifted and black!
I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
All the time, there was the weight of my community’s expectations on my shoulders.
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.
