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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 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
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
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
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
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
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Friendship Myself
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 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
When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Sing Truth Yourself
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
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
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
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

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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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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