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They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

Billie Holiday

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.
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Children Himself Lose
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
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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Basis Feeling Myself Singing
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
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
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 can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
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Exercise Myself Night Sing Stand
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
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
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
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
Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Hurry One Liner Patience Time
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
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.
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Sing Truth 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
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Love Rain Threat Walk
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
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
I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Known Myself Sing Song Way
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you – and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
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Better Hard Kill Sing Slow Way
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 Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word

They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

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They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

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