“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), Ch. 4.
“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.”
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Billie Holiday
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Lady Sings the Blues
Variant: Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.
Source: Lady Sings the Blues
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