I never had a mother that was really a mother. I just had a kid that was a mother. She was eighteen, I was thirteen, and she used to go out and live it up. So I had to go out and get a job. I was working in a whorehouse.
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"I don't like to be told what to do. I like to do what I want to do."
"I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn."
"I've been told that nobody sings the blues like Billie Holiday. That's because I don't sing the blues, I live the blues."
"I'm a woman, and I'm black, and I'm a singer. And I'm going to sing what I want to sing."
"I don't need no one to tell me how to sing. I just open my mouth and everything comes out."
Interview with Ralph J. Gleason, 'Lady Sings the Blues' (autobiography)
Date: 1956
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