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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.

Billie Holiday

When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
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
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
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Exercise Myself Night Sing Stand
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
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
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Love Rain Threat Walk
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Sing Truth Yourself
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
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

Myself Night Sing Song Stand

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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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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