When you hear Billie Holiday sing, you hear the spirit of Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong together in a person. So you have the fire of the blues shouter. You have the intelligent choice of notes like a great jazz musician like Louis Armstrong. But you have, with her, a very profound sensitivity to the human condition. She tells you something about the pain of the blues, of life, but inside of that pain is a toughness and that's what you're attracted to.
-- Wynton Marsalis, Jazz
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