"If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all."

-- Billie Holiday

#Imagination Quotes #Individuality Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.”
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.”
“Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.”
“My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.”
“Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.”
“We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.”
“There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.”

Source : "Braude's Second Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations and Anecdotes". Book by Jacob Morton Braude, 1957.

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