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When you sing, always tell the truth.

Billie Holiday

God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Love Rain Threat Walk
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
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
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
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
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
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
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
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
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
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
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.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Clothes Weird World Yourself
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.
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Change Hate Music Myself Sing
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

When you sing, always tell the truth.

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