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Billie Holiday: You can't copy...

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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.

Source: Lady Sings the Blues, 1956.
-- Billie Holiday, (Apr 7 1915-1959), US singer; She was a noted jazz vocalist whose 1956 autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, inspired the film, 1972.


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