I Don't Think I'm Singing.

If You Think Dope Is For Kicks And For Thrills, You're Out Of Your Mind. There Are More Kicks To Be Had In A Good Case Of Paralytic Polio Or By Living In An Iron Lung.

Them That's Got Shall Get, Them That's Not Shall Lose. So The Bible Says, And It Still Is News. Mama May Have, Papa May Have, But God Bless The Child That's Got His Own.

I Think I Copied My Style From Louis Armstrong. Because I Used To Like The Big Volume And The Big Sound That Bessie Smith Got When She Sang ... So I Liked The Feeling That Louis Got And I Wanted The Big Volume That Bessie Smith Got. But I Found That It Didn't Work With Me, Because I Didn't Have A Big Voice. So Anyway Between The Two Of Them I Sorta Got Billie Holiday.

If I'm Going To Sing Like Someone Else, Then I Don't Need To Sing At All.

If Nobody Can Learn From The Past, Then There's No Point In Raking It Up.