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Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.

Billie Holiday

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
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
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
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
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
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
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
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
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
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
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
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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Feeling Improvisation Myself

Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.

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Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.

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