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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.

Billie Holiday

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
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Appearance Hairs Plantation Yourself
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
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 I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Friendship Myself
The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy … it’s sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
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Feeling Happiness Sadness Yourself
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
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing
I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Hungry Myself Sing
I don’t think I’m singing. I feel like I’m playing a horn, What comes out is what I feel.
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Feeling Horn Myself Sing Thinking
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word
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
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
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.
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Goodness Mindset Thinking Yourself
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place

I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.

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