Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

Robert L. Gordy: The Hawk

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Quotes 

• Billie Holiday : Come on. Put it right up in there.

  The Hawk : Yeah, yeah.

  Billie Holiday : Come on, sweetheart.

  The Hawk : I'm coming. I'm coming. I'm coming.

• Piano Man : Come on, you don't need this gutter-pusher's shit, I'm telling you.

  Billie Holiday : Look, I don't wanna talk to you.

  Piano Man : He cuts his shit. You don't know what he cuts it with. He don't care what he cuts it with. Goddamn, you gonna take a chance on a hotshot on this nigger's reference?

  The Hawk : Hotshot?