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Billie Holiday

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

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"You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling."
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"I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know."
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"I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own."
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"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up."
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"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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"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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