Quotes by Billie Holiday
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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 ...
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Money, you have lots of friends hanging round the door. When it's gone and the spending ends They don't come no more.
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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, ...
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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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Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
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If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
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I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's ...
