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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 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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Money See World
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
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

Body Eat Life Love Yourself
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
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
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
Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
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Heart Home Lust Window
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Learning Past Point
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
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
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
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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