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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

God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
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 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
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
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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Body Eat Life Love Yourself
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
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
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
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
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Friendship Myself
I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
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Exercise Myself Night Sing Stand
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
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
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
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
Them that’s got shall get, Them that’s not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that’s got his own.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Children Himself Lose

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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