Don’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?
NINA SIMONEEvery day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I’m singing her music or not.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.
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I’m a real rebel with a cause.
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I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
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Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m feeling good.
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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they’re not alone.
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If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
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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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The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.
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I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
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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.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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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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