Bessie Smith Quotes
- Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy… — Frank B. Wilderson III
- I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got… — Billie Holiday
- I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long… — Madeleine Peyroux