"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
"Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don't know if it was the right thing to do—I asked her for her autograph."
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Source: Song: I Love Paris
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