When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
BILLIE HOLIDAYIf nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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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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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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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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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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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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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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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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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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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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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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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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