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Billie Holiday

"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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"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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"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."

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"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."

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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

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"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

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"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

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"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

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"Listening is the key to everything good in music."

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"Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three."
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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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"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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"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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"One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head."
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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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"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up."
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