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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If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.Billie Holiday
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.
Billie Holiday
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
Billie Holiday
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
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
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