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Billie Holiday

Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Love Rain Threat Walk
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
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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Chance Myself Play Work
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
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

Feeling Happiness Sadness Yourself
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
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word
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
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Enough Known Limitation
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Friendship Myself
I never sing a song the same way twice.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Myself Sing Song
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Emotion Feeling Love
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Hard Kill Love 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
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 try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Feeling Improvisation Myself

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