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Billie Holiday Quotes: I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.
         

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.


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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 music.

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.



Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.



The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.



You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.



I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.



Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.



I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.



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.

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.



I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.



People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

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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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.



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If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.



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If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.



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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.



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