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Billie Holiday

"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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"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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"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 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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