You Can Be Up To Your Boobies

Sometimes It's Worse To Win A Fight Than To Lose.

The Only Reason They're Out There Is To See Me Fall Into The Damn Orchestra Pit.

I Try To Improvise Like Les Young, Louis Armstrong Or Someone Else I Admire. What Comes Out Is What I Feel.

I Never Had A Chance To Play With Dolls Like Other Kids. I Started Working When I Was Six Years Old.

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.