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 SIMONEYou 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.
More Nina Simone Quotes
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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 believe in racial memory too. I’m sure I’ve got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
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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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Many times I feel different like a different person.
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There’s no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
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Desegregation is a joke.
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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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I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
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It’s a good time for black people to be alive.
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
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To be young, gifted and black!
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