Billie Holiday
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"Billie Holiday" was an American jazz singer, songwriter, and actress.

Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.

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Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

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.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

Love is like a faucet (it turns off and on).

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

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.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.