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.
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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.Billie Holiday
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.
Billie Holiday
Terror runs for king I said. It is better to explore within. We were apes before we spoke of sin. The cosmos sits on the tip of a pin.
Billie Holiday
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.
Billie Holiday
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
Billie Holiday
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
Billie Holiday
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