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When you sing, always tell the truth.

Billie Holiday

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
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Day Head Lyrics Myself Place
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
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
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.
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Body Eat Life Love 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
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
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 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 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 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
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Friendship Myself

When you sing, always tell the truth.

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