I guess I'm not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse. But I never tried to make anything of it. If I'd heard Louis and Bessie at a Girl Scout jamboree, I'd have loved it just the same.
— Billie Holiday Modern

Jazz vocalist

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From her autobiography, 'Lady Sings the Blues'.

Date / Period

1956

Category

Humorous

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/600990

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