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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.

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
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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Country Greatness Myself Short Start
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
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 can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
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
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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Business Smile Throw Yourself
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
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Love Myself Sing Work
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
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
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word

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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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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