Scott Laumann

        raymond chandler

             bill evans

    james sallis

   marlon brando

   ernest hemingway

        art blakey

    billie holiday

As Much Trouble

      You can get in just as much trouble by being dumb and innocent as you can by breaking the law.

Billie Holiday

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Billie Holiday

Thought About You

 

I Thought About You
(Van Heusen/Mercer)
Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

     She Knew her place. And sometimes she didn't want to stay in her place. That's why she's Billie Holiday.

James Erskine

from The Troubled Brilliance of Billie Holiday
Alex Godfrey
The Guardian 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/06/billie-holiday-documentary-lost-tapes-racism-in-united-states

Wherever I Go

Lost in the dark

Too soon, too soon

I feel wherever i go

That tomorrow is near

Tomorrow is here

And always too soon

Speak Low

(Kurt Weill)

Billie Holiday

Christophe Chaboute

Body and Soul

Body and Soul
(Green/Heyman/Eyton/Sour)
Billie Holiday

Don't Explain

Hush now, don't explain
I know you ain't stayin
I'm glad you're back
Don't explain

Billie Holiday
Don't Explain
(Herzog/Holiday)

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Billie Holiday

Heard Her Voice

           I heard her voice (and) i dug it. I was in love with that voice and i was picturing evil, sensuous, sultry, very evil ........ probably one of the most evil voices i've heard in my life ..... Evil is earthy to me. When you say someone is evil, it means very, very bad. I don't mean bad.

Ray Ellis
(on Billie Holiday)

You've Changed

 

You've Changed
(Carey/Fischer)
Billie Holiday
                                       https://fragmentsofnoirblog.tumblr.com/archive

Crazy for Me

He's Funny That Way
(Daniels/Whiting)
Billie Holiday

Not Always the Best

 

End of a Love Affair
(Redding)
Billie Holiday

Don't Explain

 

Don't Explain
(Holiday/Herzog)
Dexter Gordon

They Don't Come

Money, you got lots of friends

They're crowding round your door

But when you're gone and spending ends

They don't come no more

God Bless the Child

(Holiday/Herzog)

Billie Holiday

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Martin Lewis

Lady Day

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walkin' in the rain.

Billie Holiday

Autumn in New York

•  Autumn in New York
• (Duke)
• Billie Holiday

Roy Schatt

Her Last Song

      Behind me, Billie was on her last song. I picked up the refrain, humming a few bars. Her voice sounded different to me now. Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter. I heard a willingness to endure. Endure - and make music that wasn't there before.

Barrack Obama

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Billie Holiday's Funeral
July 21st 1959

Hear Me

Willow weep for me

Bend your branches green along the stream that runs to sea

Hear me willow and weep for me

Willow Weep for Me

(Ronell)

Billie Holiday

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A Real Place

    It is a real place and for much of the century it has provided a global home for millions of people. It is a republic with a simple name : Jazz.

But Beautiful

Geoff Dyer

1991

         https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/880915-but-beautiful-a-book-about-jazz