I Can't Stand To Sing The Same

You Can't Copy Anybody And End With Anything. If You Copy, It Means You're Working Without Any Real Feeling.

God Bless The Child That's Got His Own.

I Never Hurt Nobody But Myself And That's Nobody's Business But My Own.

I Think I Copied My Style From Louis Armstrong. Because I Used To Like The Big Volume And The Big Sound That Bessie Smith Got When She Sang ... So I Liked The Feeling That Louis Got And I Wanted The Big Volume That Bessie Smith Got. But I Found That It Didn't Work With Me, Because I Didn't Have A Big Voice. So Anyway Between The Two Of Them I Sorta Got Billie Holiday.

If You Think Dope Is For Kicks And For Thrills, You're Out Of Your Mind. There Are More Kicks To Be Had In A Good Case Of Paralytic Polio Or By Living In An Iron Lung.