Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Unique Music

Today, I was reading Billie Holiday's autobiography "Lady Sings the Blues" (Penguin) and was enjoying it thoroughly (she cusses a lot) when I came across a great passage.  

"When I did my first number, 'If You Were Mine,' I knew that nobody understood my singing.  They didn't like me; they didn't hate me either.  They just didn't have any enthusiasm either way, like they hadn't been told by anybody yet whether I was good or bad.  And when you're doing something new, you got to have somebody tell people." (p. 63)

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