4. Dianne Reeves She supplies the lush jazz vocals in Good Night, and Good Luck ... Billie Me.
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So I asked him to play 'Trav'lin' All Alone.' That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor.... When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.Billie Holiday
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
Billie Holiday
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
Billie Holiday
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.
Billie Holiday
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
Billie Holiday
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
Billie Holiday
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