Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

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• I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Today
  • Drinking
  • Beer

• I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Work
  • Character
  • Mother

• I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.

  

  Lorde
  • Feeling
  • Cool
  • Concentrate

• People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • People
  • Night
  • Food

• I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Play

• Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Women
  • Problem
  • Onstage

• You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Work
  • Together
  • Movie

• Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage...

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Audience
  • Onstage
  • Participation

• In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Bold
  • Onstage
  • Introduced

• When you get new people around you, the excitement is new because they have different take on your music. They play it in a different way, and that's always exciting to be around. It elevates everybody onstage.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Music
  • Excitement
  • Onstage

• You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Player
  • Say
  • Onstage

• Nothing has that fire we feel when we're onstage.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Feel
  • Fire
  • Onstage

• I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

  

  Micky Dolenz The Monkees
  • Onstage
  • Offstage

• When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • People
  • Phone
  • Onstage

• I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Press
  • Onstage

• I'm actually relaxed onstage. Totally relaxed. It's nice. I feel relaxed in the studio too. I know whether something feels right. If it doesn't, I know how to fix it. Everything has to be in place and if it is you feel good, you feel fulfilled.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Studio
  • Onstage
  • Relaxed

• I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was.

  

  Butterfly Boucher
  • Song
  • Band
  • Guitar

• In this day and age of social media, there's a lot of people out there with five-pound opinions, We kind of figured that it would be best if we just walked up onstage and showed them who the lineup was.

  

  Juan Croucier Ratt
  • People
  • Onstage
  • Showed

• If I could have any power in the world, it would be super-metabolism. I would love to eat anything and not gain weight! That would be a great power. I would have an intravenous Guinness with me, everywhere I went! But I wouldn't want to know what my wife is thinking. It's a difficult power, yeah.

  

  Gregory Phillip Grunberg Band from TV
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Wife

• Peace before everything, God before anything, Love before anything, real before everything, Home before any place, shoot before anything, Style and state radiate, Love Power slay the hate.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • God
  • Love
  • Power

• Bacon is like a good pair of Levi's-it never goes out of style.

  

  Michael Symon
  • Style
  • Never
  • Bacon

• Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Onstage
  • Piano Playing