I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.
Nina SimoneI don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
Nina SimoneMusic is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.
Nina SimoneI believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.
Nina Simone