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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.

Billie Holiday

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 bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Learning Past Point
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
When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Sing Truth Yourself
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
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Feeling Improvisation Myself
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
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 never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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Myself Need Sing
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
People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
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Fight Kind People Record Understand 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.
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Children Himself Lose

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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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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