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Abbey Lincoln Quotes
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I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do. (Abbey Lincoln Quotes)
It’s a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter. (Abbey Lincoln Quotes)
We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It’s our memory banks. (Abbey Lincoln Quotes)
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, ‘cause we didn’t have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. (Abbey Lincoln Quotes)
The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart (Abbey Lincoln Quotes)
We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It’s our memory banks (Abbey Lincoln Quotes)
I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me (Abbey Lincoln Quotes)