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| Billie Holiday
All dope can do for you is kill you … the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.Here is a strange and bitter cropI 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.I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know. I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. I never hurt nobody but myself, and that's nobody's
business but my own.I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been. If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you. Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on. Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. People don't understand the kind of fight it takes
to record what you want to record the way you want
to record it.Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.The difficult I can do today. The impossible will take a little longer.There's no damn business like show business -- you have to smile to keep from throwing up.They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. |
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