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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.

Billie Holiday

I don’t think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Feeling Life Myself Sing Thinking Way
Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
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Love Myself Sing Work
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
All dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
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Hard Kill Love Yourself
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.
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Myself Night Sing Song Stand
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Learning Past Point
There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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Business Smile Throw Yourself
The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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Fall Myself Reason See
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
I don’t think I’m singing. I feel like I’m playing a horn, What comes out is what I feel.
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Feeling Horn Myself Sing Thinking
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
In this country kings or dukes don’t amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.
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Country Greatness Myself Short Start

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