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I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.

~Abbey Lincoln

Topics: Any Billie Holiday Holiday Loved More Myself Other Person Stage Than Yeah

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I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.

~Ahmet Ertegun

Topics: About Armstrong Billie Holiday Charles Course Everybody Great Great Music Greatest He His Hits Holiday How Incredible Jazz Lot Louis Love Make Music Necessarily Part Ray Ray Charles Singers Still Talent Teach Who World I Love

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My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

~Andra Day

Topics: Because Billie Holiday Gloss Holiday Idols Like Singers

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I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman.

~Antonia Thomas

Topics: Billie Holiday Fascinating Holiday Jazz Jazz Music Like Love Loved Music Nirvana Really See She Them Woman Younger

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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

~Barbra Streisand

Topics: Again Billie Holiday Hear Holiday Listen Music Never Once Rarely Record Unless

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I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

~Bob Iger

Topics: Billie Holiday Ella Era Fitzgerald Fondness Holiday Jazz Particularly Sinatra Singers Through Way

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I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices - I think that's something important is having.

~Bridgit Mendler

Topics: Billie Holiday Having Holiday Important James King Love Music Really Something Soul Think Voices I Think I Love

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I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so beautiful. Frank Sinatra, the Pied Pipers, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday. That's when popular music had deeper values, to me. This was music that was selling millions of records.

~Charlie Haden

Topics: Beautiful Billie Holiday Deeper Duke Feel Frank Frank Sinatra Had Holiday Like Me Millions Music People Popular Popular Music Records Selling Sinatra States Tommy United United States Values Want

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I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'

~Charlie Haden

Topics: Becoming Billie Holiday Charlie Charlie Parker Classical Classical Music Concert Did Everything Holiday Interested Jazz Listened Lived Music Nebraska Parker Play Said Saw Sing Sounds Started Want Young

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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

~Diana Ross

Topics: About Billie Holiday First First Time Great Heard Holiday Record Thought Time

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