The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
BILLIE HOLIDAYSomebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
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Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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All dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
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Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you – and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
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I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.
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Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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