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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.

Billie Holiday

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.
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Country Forget Hell Love Privacy Yourself
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Hungry Myself Sing
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
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 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
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
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
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing
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 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

If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.

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