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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

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
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
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Clothes Weird World 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.
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Hard Kill Love Yourself
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
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
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
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
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
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
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
I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Hungry Myself Sing
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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Enough Known Limitation
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
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 try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

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