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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

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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Hard Kill Love Yourself
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
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
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
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
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
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Money See World
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Goodness Mindset Thinking Yourself
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 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
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
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.
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Better Hard Kill Sing Slow Way
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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Chance Myself Play Work
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
In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Country Forget Hell Love Privacy Yourself
I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Hungry Myself Sing

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.

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