Sometimes It's Worse To Win

And When You're Poor, You Grow Up Fast.

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 Copy, It Means You're Working Without Any Real Feeling. No Two People On Earth Are Alike, And It's Got To Be That Way In Music Or It Isn't Music.

If Nobody Can Learn From The Past, Then There's No Point In Raking It Up.

If I'm Going To Sing Like Someone Else, Then I Don't Need To Sing At All.