Nina Simone

'Nina Simone' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Simone, Nina Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Nina Simone Love Sorceress... Forever

  2013, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Joy, It's Nina

  2012, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Sing Your Song

  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Wild Tigers I Have Known

  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Nina Simone: Live at Ronnie Scott's

  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Playboy: The Party Continues

  2000, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Nina Simone: La légende

  1992, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen L'ourse bleue

  1990, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Noite de estrelas

  1989, role: actress , character name: Herself - Guest
• Play in Full Screen Brel

  1982, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Four Women

  1975, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Black Music in America: From Then Till Now

  1971, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen ...And Beautiful II

  1970, role: actress , character name: Herself - Singer
• Play in Full Screen Festival panafricain d'Alger

  1969, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Nina Simone-The Sound of Soul

  1968, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Gala der Schallplatte

  1967, role: actress , character name: Herself

Simons, Nina Filmography

• Play in Full Screen La Commedia

  2013, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Nighthawks

  2011, role: actress , character name: Sharon
• Play in Full Screen Frisian Terror

  2009, role: actress , character name: Kim
• Play in Full Screen The Blue Horse

  2009, role: actress , character name: Kristen Bilger
• Play in Full Screen Complexx

  2006, role: actress , character name: Secretaresse

Simone, Nina Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Horny Black Mothers & Daughters 6

  2009, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Black Cougars 1

  2008, role: actress

Famous quotes by Nina Simone:

"The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough."

"There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were."

"To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music."

"I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested."

"I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep."

"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."

"I am particular about the seating of the audience-also about how much money they pay-but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?"

"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."

"My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela."

"I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever."

"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."

"I'm a real rebel with a cause."

"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."

"Desegregation is a joke."

"From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman."

Nina Simone