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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

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
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
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
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Goodness Mindset Thinking Yourself
They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
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Known Myself Stop Thinking Willing
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
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.
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Children Himself Lose
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
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
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
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Love Rain Threat Walk
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Feeling Improvisation Myself
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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Love Myself Sing Work

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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