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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.

Billie Holiday

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
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
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
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Learning Past Point
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Country Greatness Myself Short Start
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you – and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Better Hard Kill Sing Slow Way
You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.
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End Feeling Reality Work Yourself
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing
I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Hungry Myself Sing
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
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Known Myself Stop Thinking Willing

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