Nina Simone Quotes

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.

First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

Though I probably shouldn't admit this, the activities and pursuits in which I've achieved any measure of success are, without exception, activities and pursuits that came easily to me from the beginning.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

I never wanted to study art. And I don't think you need to study art if you are an artist. It's even dangerous to go to school. You need to do whatever you want, as you want.

It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

My style has always been my own, just like my flow and style.

I must admit, I don't try to put my stamp on anything; it just happens. I don't really know how to think another way.

You can't make a star - they just have it.

You don't want to look the same every day of your life. It's boring as hell.

Talent is talent.

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.

It can't be bought. It can't be taught. It must be caught.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

You got to have style, and learn to be original.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

My style is unique and it's my own. I do not try to copy or imitate anybody.