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I guess I'm not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse. But I never tried to make anything of it. If I'd heard Louis and Bessie at a Girl Scout jamboree, I'd have loved it just the same.

— Billie Holiday Modern · Jazz vocalist

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From her autobiography, 'Lady Sings the Blues'.

Date: 1956

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