You've got to have something to eat and a little love in yo… - Billie Holiday

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You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. Everything I am and everything I want out of life goes smack back to that.

Billie Holiday

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Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), born Eleanora Fagan Goughy, was an American jazz singer. Commonly known as Lady Day, her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.

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Birth Name: Eleanora Fagan

Also Known As: Lady Day

Alternative Names: Eleanora Fagan Gough • Eleanora Harris • Eleanora Gough

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Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news
Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own.

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.

Lord I love my man, tell the world I do
I love my man, tell the world I do But when he mistreats me Makes me feel so blue.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. Everything … - Billie Holiday

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