A Quote by Billie Holiday

I never sing a song the same way twice.

Billie Holiday

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Never Same Sing Song Twice Way

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Billie Holiday
American - Musician
April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

Van Morrison

When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon as I hear an arrangement, I get ideas, kind of like blowing a horn. I guess I never sing a tune the same way twice.

Sarah Vaughan

I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.

Billie Holiday

I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.

Rupert Friend

Writing a great song is not a simple task, but I feel like when everything comes together and you sing it in a certain way that no-one else can sing it, when it's written in a certain way that's perfect for the way that you're performing it, that those are the things that make a song great.

William Beckett

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.

Van Morrison

The rule is to try and never play the same thing twice when you have the freedom to do that in the song.

Peter Frampton

You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I never sing a song more than twice because my fear of waning excitement for a piece is part of my troubles. I so rely on vibe, energy and emotions that the technical part occurs to me last.

Shelby Lynne

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

Billie Holiday

Whatever be the depth of woe Along the path that I must go, I'll sing my song— My song of joy for all the love That's lavished on us from above, And count no loss of treasure-trove When things go wrong. I'll sing the sunlight, and the bright Soft smiling stars that gem the night; For gifts of good That God hath spread along my way, The lilt of birds in tuneful play, The harvests full and flowers gay, The whole day long I'll sing my song Of gratitude!