I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
BILLIE HOLIDAYAnd when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
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If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.
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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 can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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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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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
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