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 SIMONEMy 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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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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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that’s not what I play. I play black classical music.
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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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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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Music is the center of my life.
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Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
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Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
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My name sounds French but that’s just a stage name.
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You can’t be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I’m very thankful for that. I’m very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.
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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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What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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