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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

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Friendship Myself
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
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 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
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
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
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
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
I joined Count Basie’s band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn’t see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
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Money See World
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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