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 HOLIDAYThe difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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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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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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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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I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
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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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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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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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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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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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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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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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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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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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