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There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

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.
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Children Himself Lose
If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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Myself Need Sing
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
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
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
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Appearance Hairs Plantation Yourself
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.
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Change Hate Music Myself Sing
The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy … it’s sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
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Feeling Happiness Sadness Yourself
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Hungry Myself Sing
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Learning Past Point
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
When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Sing Truth Yourself

There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

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