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Quotation by Billie Holiday
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Billie Holiday (6)Additional Sources
Lady Sings the Blues (1956, rev. 1975)God Bless the Child (song) written in collaboration with Arthur Herzog Jr. (1941)Strange Fruit (song) (1939)Related Subjects
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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 (1915–1959), U.S. blues singer, and William Dufty. Lady Sings the Blues, ch. 4 (1956, rev. 1975).
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