"To hell with Billie Holiday! Come down and listen to me, the real Billie."
— Billie Holiday

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Lillian "Billie" Yarbo, c. 1935, speaking to trumpeter ; as quoted in Clayton and Nancy Miller Elliott Buck Clayton's Jazz World (1986), p. 81.