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Holiday: "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music."

Holiday: "If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all."

Holiday: "I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been."

Holiday: "A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted."

Holiday: "You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling."

Holiday: "Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain."

Holiday: "People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it."

Holiday: "I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know."

Holiday: "You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave."

Holiday: "One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head."

Holiday: "I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own."