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I never sing a song the same way twice.

Billie Holiday

In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
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Country Forget Hell Love Privacy Yourself
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Hungry Myself Sing
When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Sing Truth Yourself
I don’t think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.
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Feeling Life Myself Sing Thinking Way
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
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
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 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
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Friendship Myself
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 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
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
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
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 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 never sing a song the same way twice.

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