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You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.

Billie Holiday

Them that’s got shall get, Them that’s not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that’s got his own.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Children Himself Lose
I joined Count Basie’s band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn’t see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
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Money See World
People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Fight Kind People Record Understand Yourself
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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Enough Known Limitation
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Learning Past Point
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Sing Truth Yourself
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

End Feeling Reality Work Yourself
You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Body Eat Life Love Yourself
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Business Hurt Myself
God bless the child that’s got his own.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Blessing Children God Independent
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Basis Feeling Myself Singing
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
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right

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