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 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 close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.Billie Holiday
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
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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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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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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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