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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

Billie Holiday

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

Body Eat Life Love Yourself
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
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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Feeling Happiness Sadness Yourself
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Friendship Myself
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
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 difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God 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
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
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.
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Goodness Mindset Thinking Yourself
There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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Business Smile Throw Yourself

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

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