I am woman, 25, budding soul singer currently singing backup with a meticulous & talented classic soul group. Our lead singer doesn't believe in the soul as a thing. WTF.
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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One day, a long time from now you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of.
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My sister called and asked what I was doing. Without hesitating I said, “Working.” And you know what I’m actually doing? Working. But working means obsessively listening to music.
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Billie Holiday at the Downbeat Club, May 1945.
New career goal: become well-loved enough to bring a dog to shows.
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Just do the damn thing.
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Pearl Bailey.
Her blouse is amazing.
I am so proud to be named after this woman. Hnnnng. Watch this.
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There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse.
