Nina Simone Jazz Quotes

#1. I prefer her [Nina Simone] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

Nikki Giovanni

#2. Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

Louis Untermeyer

#3. There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

Robert Wyatt

#4. 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

#5. I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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

Nina Simone

#7. My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

Yael Naim

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

Nina Simone

#9. Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

Beth Moore

#10. 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

#11. Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron, So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action

Daniel Simon

#12. I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

Mark Twain

#13. I've never really liked horror films.

Marcia Gay Harden