I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
Nina SimoneThe pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.
Nina SimoneI believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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