If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
BILLIE HOLIDAYWhen Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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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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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Them that’s got shall get, Them that’s not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that’s got his own.
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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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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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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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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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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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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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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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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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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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