"Young kids always ask me what my style is derirved from and how it evolved and all that. But if you find a tune and it's got something to do with you, you don't have to evolve anything. You just feel it, and when you sing it, other people can feel something, too."
--Billie Holiday
*Lady Day was talking to Rosemary Clooney, and this quote is taken from Clooney's
autobiography Girl Singer, written with Joan Barthel (Doubleday, 1999).