People don’t understand the sort of fight it takes to record what you want, to record the way you want to record it.
—Billie Holiday
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t got nothin’.
—Billie Holiday
I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
—Billie Holiday
Topics: Singing
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