Nina Simone Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

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

  Nina Simone

  Music, White, Racism

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Music, Mean, Play

• Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

  Nina Simone

  Music, Joy, Jazz

• 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?

  Nina Simone

  Music, Song, Misunderstood

• Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

  Nina Simone

  Music, Jazz, Remember

  Quoted in Art Taylor Notes and Tones (1977),'Nina Simone'.

• Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

  Nina Simone

  Music, Thinking, Way

• 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

  Music, Thinking, Play

• I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

  Nina Simone

  Drinking, Jazz, Heard

  Source: boscarol.com

• As far as piano players are concerned, Oscar Peterson is my very favorite. I also like McCoy Tyner. I think that the big jazz stars, both now and in the past...how shall I say it? These guys are as great as Bach, Beethoven; all of them. People don't know it yet. If jazz survives and is put on a pedestal as an art form, the same as classical music has been through the years, a hundred years from now the kids will know who they were, with that kind of respect.

  Nina Simone

  Art, Stars, Kids

  Source: www.musicismysanctuary.com

• I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

  Nina Simone

  Music, Cat, Drug

• I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

  Nina Simone

  Music, Rights, People

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