God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
BILLIE HOLIDAYAnd when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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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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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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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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I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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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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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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In this country kings or dukes don’t amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.
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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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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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