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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.

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 never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
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
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Learning Past Point
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
When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Sing Truth Yourself
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Goodness Mindset Thinking Yourself
In this country kings or dukes don’t amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.
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Country Greatness Myself Short Start
The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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Fall Myself Reason See
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
People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Fight Kind People Record Understand Yourself
I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.
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Myself Night Sing Song Stand

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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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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