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I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.

Billie Holiday

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

Hear Himself Play Singing Word
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
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.
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Clothes Weird World Yourself
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Goodness Mindset Thinking Yourself
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
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Hard Kill Love Yourself
If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Myself Need Sing
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Known Myself Stop Thinking Willing
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 never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

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

Myself Sing Song
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Basis Feeling Myself Singing
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Emotion Feeling Love

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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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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