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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

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
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
If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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Myself Need Sing
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
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.
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Appearance Hairs Plantation Yourself
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
I joined Count Basie’s band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn’t see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
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Money See World
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
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
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
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’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Hungry Myself Sing
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you – and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
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Better Hard Kill Sing Slow Way
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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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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