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 Modern

Jazz vocalist

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From her autobiography, 'Lady Sings the Blues'

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1956

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Strange & Unusual

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