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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

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.
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Feeling Life Myself Sing Thinking Way
When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Sing Truth Yourself
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
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
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
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
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
I don’t think I’m singing. I feel like I’m playing a horn, What comes out is what I feel.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Feeling Horn Myself Sing Thinking
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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Enough Known Limitation
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
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Marriage Myself Parents Young
Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
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Heart Home Lust Window
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Friendship Myself
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

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