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You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.

Billie Holiday

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
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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Enough Known Limitation
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
When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Sing Truth 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
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Learning Past Point
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
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.
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Hard Kill Love Yourself
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
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 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
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

You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.

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