Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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 Simone
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Nina Simone
Age: 75 †
Born: 1933
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: April 21
Composer
Jazz Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Tryon
North Carolina
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
High Priestess of Soul
Singer
Singers
Jazz
Lead
Honky
Band
Stole
Written
Confronted
Song
Eric
Music
Misunderstood
More quotes by Nina Simone
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.
Nina Simone
I don't like to go to strange places.
Nina Simone
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.
Nina Simone
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.
Nina Simone
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.
Nina Simone
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.
Nina Simone
I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep
Nina Simone
I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.
Nina Simone
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
Nina Simone
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.
Nina Simone
I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.
Nina Simone
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
Nina Simone
Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.
Nina Simone
When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
Nina Simone
Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.
Nina Simone
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.
Nina Simone
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.
Nina Simone
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.
Nina Simone
I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
Nina Simone
I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
Nina Simone
