Nina Simone
Related My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist. BERNIE WORRELL I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh. MONICA ALI ROBERT WYATT RUFUS WAINWRIGHT EDWARD WESTON I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring.... GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were gre... DAVE BRUBECK I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to N... ALAINA HUFFMAN MARILYNNE ROBINSON KAREN DECROW I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes t... MITCHEL MUSSO CAROLINE SHAW COLM TOIBIN PETER C. DOHERTY ASHLEY MADEKWE I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the wo... BRIAN WILSON I wanted to be a music teacher. DOUG NICHOLSON Like the music of Beethoven, Bach and Charlie Parker, the Beatles' music was built to last - proving... DAVID AMRAM I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen i... ANNE STEVENSON Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian ROGER FRY ITZHAK PERLMAN If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh... DARIUS RUCKER A. R. RAHMAN BECK SAMUEL BUTLER I've always been attracted to music, and women like Aretha Franklin, Beyonce, Nina Simone, Ella ... PEARL MACKIE UNKNOWN When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' i... DANIEL HOPE We tend to get wrapped up in the music, but a teacher once told me that songs are monologues set to ... JEFF DILLON My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever mus... KELLY BROOK I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: T... LAURA BELL BUNDY Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, da... ALICIA KEYS I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I w... DEV HYNES ANNA MOUGLALIS My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 190... ELLIOTT CARTER DAVID BENIOFF JOSH TURNER GORDON GETTY MARY J. BLIGE Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology s... WYCLEF JEAN If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition ... ALAN SUGAR I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the... CY COLEMAN I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted. JANIS IAN To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what ... DIRK BENEDICT I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-h... DONALD BYRD Music has had a profound effect on me all my life. I wanted to be able to give that to others, belie... LISA MARIE PRESLEY TEDDY THOMPSON JIMI HENDRIX There is much more to playing the clavier than playing written music. Do you realize with accompanyi... NANCY MOSER CARRIE BROWNSTEIN Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, whic... PIERRE SCHAEFFER That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It do... DAVE BRUBECK My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro... HOZIER KATE DICAMILLO HENRY ROLLINS A. R. RAHMAN WALTER ISAACSON SHAKIRA When my time ends, I want people to say, 'Man her music made me smile; it just enlightened my li... LEDISI MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happ... BARRY MANILOW In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's... KELIS There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That... ELIZABETH PEYTON I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I beg... GYORGY LIGETI PAULA COLE I've been playing music for a long time. I play my music to keep busy. I play my music to keep out o... WESLEY WILLIS GAVIN DEGRAW SCOTTY MCCREERY KELSEA BALLERINI Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work. ALEXANDER CHEE Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance... NADIA ALI I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ... PUSHA T I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was ver... MICHAEL RAPAPORT YAEL NAIM If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father's musical legacy, then I guess it w... STEPHEN MARLEY My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about co... CARLA BRUNI When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst... LAUREN DAIGLE To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy... HOZIER JIDENNA EARTHA KITT I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and... NANCY SINATRA Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do... VINCE STAPLES It never occurred to me that I'd be a musician. I was just drunk on music, jamming with friends,... MOHIT CHAUHAN CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON DOROTHY HAMILL MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space... KATE BUSH My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed e... TREY SONGZ The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me h... DANNY BROWN I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I... CHARLIE HADEN It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a '... BIRDY HUNTER HAYES LINDA EVANGELISTA ERYKAH BADU The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But... BILLY PAUL I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I wa... AFROJACK People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B... P. J. HARVEY I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a ... ALAN HOVHANESS Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket... GUSTAVO DUDAMEL EZRA POUND
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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that m... 
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I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. 
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