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I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

Billie Holiday

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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Appearance Hairs Plantation Yourself
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

Heart Home Lust Window
If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Myself Need Sing
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Clothes Weird World Yourself
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Chance Myself Play Work
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Love Rain Threat Walk
The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Fall Myself Reason See
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Children Himself Lose
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Hear Himself Play Singing Word
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Friendship Myself
I never sing a song the same way twice.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Myself Sing Song
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Learning Past Point
When you sing, always tell the truth.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Sing Truth Yourself
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Myself Return
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Emotion Feeling Love
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Fast Growth Poor Yourself

I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

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I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

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