Best quotes by Nina Simone on Music

Checkout quotes by Nina Simone on Music

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

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• ‟ I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I didn't get interested in music. It was a gift from God.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators.

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

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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.

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