The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
BILLIE HOLIDAYDope 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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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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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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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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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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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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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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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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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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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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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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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.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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