Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
From 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.
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
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.
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