There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
NINA SIMONEDon’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band’s lead singer, Eric Burdon. “So you’re the honky,” she said, “who stole my song and got a hit out of it?
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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Music is the center of my life.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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It doesn’t matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That’s my stick.
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You’ve got to learn to leave the table When love’s no longer being served”.
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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
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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.
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I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
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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.
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My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.
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You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
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Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
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