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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Nina Simone

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?
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Herself Leadership Misunderstanding Singing Writing Yourself
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
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Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
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Burden Joy Music Myself Remember
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
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Music Myself
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
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Important Music Myself Thinking
To be young, gifted and black!
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Black One Liner Young
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
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Couple Excitement Intense Love Myself Reading
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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Kind Love Myself Naked People
It’s logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.
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Bad Communication Live Logic People Reflection Time Yourself
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I’ve done my whole life, without thought.
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Activity Life Myself Singer
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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Blow Heart Love Myself Satisfaction Wild Wind
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
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Dreams Myself Show
There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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Excuse Hero Known People Young
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Beginning Black Woman
Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing Oh my God! Ooh Wow You can see colors through music. Anything!
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Colors Learning Mathematics Music Sadness Yourself
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
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Dare Order Question Symbol Wrong

I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

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