You can't copy anybody and end with anything. 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.
- Billie Holiday
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
- Billie Holiday
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
- Billie Holiday
I listened to this podcast overnight - quite wonderful and inspirational.
I thought about Billie Holiday's song - by chance, it's her birthday
Ode to Solitude (Earshot - Radio National)
the accompanying article by Anik See, Is there a place for solitude anymore?
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