No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

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There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

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I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

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You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

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Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

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All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

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All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

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People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

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