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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.

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
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.
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Goodness Mindset Thinking Yourself
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
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 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
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Love Rain Threat Walk
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Hungry Myself Sing
If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.
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Earth Feeling Imitation Music People Reality Work Yourself
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
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
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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Enough Known Limitation
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
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

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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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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