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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

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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Earth Feeling Imitation Music People Reality Work Yourself
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’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Sing Truth Yourself
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
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
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Learning Past Point
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
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Marriage Myself Parents Young
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
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Friendship Myself
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Country Forget Hell Love Privacy 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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