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Compatible Quotes: Billie Holiday

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2008
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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.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

--Billie Holiday, born on this date in 1915, died July 17, 1959

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