All BILLIE HOLIDAY Quotes about “Feelings”

“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.”
“You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.”
“The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.”
“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.”

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