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Jazz Singer Inspirational Quotes (70)

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New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
Billie Holiday
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I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.
Cassandra Wilson
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
Abbey Lincoln
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It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
Abbey Lincoln
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But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
Abbey Lincoln
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The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
Abbey Lincoln
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I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
Abbey Lincoln
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there's no point in raking it up.
Billie Holiday
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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
Billie Holiday
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Don't be in such a hurry.
Billie Holiday
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Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
Cassandra Wilson
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[Miles Davis] learned from everyone. He was incredible. He took the best from everyone and threw away the rest. He was brilliant. One of the things he told me he loved about my voice was how I used space-both in music and between my voice and the mike.
Helen Merrill
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Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.
Diana Krall
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I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
Diana Krall
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Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.
Diana Krall
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I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
Billie Holiday
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The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.
Diana Krall
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I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.
Billie Holiday
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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.
Billie Holiday
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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
Billie Holiday
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The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.
Diana Krall
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I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
Billie Holiday
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We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.
Abbey Lincoln
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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.
Billie Holiday
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