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When you sing, always tell the truth.

Billie Holiday

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
I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Hungry Myself Sing
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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Enough Known Limitation
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Learning Past Point
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
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
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
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
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
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
In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
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Country Forget Hell Love Privacy Yourself
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
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
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 you sing, always tell the truth.

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