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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.

Billie Holiday

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
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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Heart Home Lust Window
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
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 can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
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Exercise Myself Night Sing Stand
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Love Rain Threat Walk
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 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
When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Sing Truth Yourself
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
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
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Appearance Hairs Plantation Yourself
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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Fight Kind People Record Understand Yourself
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Friendship Myself
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
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
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word

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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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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