“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, book Lady Sings the Blues

Source: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 4.

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American jazz singer and songwriter 1915–1959

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