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When you sing, always tell the truth.

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
Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
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Heart Home Lust Window
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Money See World
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
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
When you sing, always tell the truth.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Sing Truth Yourself
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Known Myself Sing Song Way
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
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
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
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’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Hungry Myself Sing
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
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

When you sing, always tell the truth.

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