If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
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When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'
I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.
When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.
I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.
Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.
I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.
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