Vanity Fairさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Vanity FairInstagram)「There are few legends whose lives have been as mythologized as Billie Holiday’s. In her 1956 autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, Holiday and cowriter William Dufty added to her triumphant yet tragic mythos, presenting a life filled with joy, despondency, and a surprising amount of hard-edged humor. Pugnacious as she was precocious, Holiday battled through the sadness of her life, time and time again. “I know Lady,” Louis Armstrong once said. “And when she starts crying, the next thing she’s going to do is start fighting.” And fight she did to be true to herself and her art, no matter what the cost. “I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do. Or the word ‘love,’” Holiday wrote of her life experiences. “All I’ve learned in all those places from all those people is wrapped up in those two words. You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermons on how to behave.” At the link in bio, V.F. revisits the icon's landmark autobiography, and the ways in which it presented a life filled with joy, despondency, and a surprising amount of hard-edged humor.」2月16日 3時01分