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

Billie Holiday

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

Earth Feeling Imitation Music People Reality Work 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
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
When you sing, always tell the truth.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Sing Truth Yourself
In this country kings or dukes don’t amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.
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Country Greatness Myself Short Start
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Love Rain Threat Walk
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
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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Enough Known Limitation
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Children Himself Lose
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
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
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 Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Change Hate Music Myself Sing
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Fast Growth Poor 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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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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