The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
BILLIE HOLIDAYSometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.
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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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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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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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I don’t think I’m singing. I feel like I’m playing a horn, What comes out is what I feel.
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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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You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.
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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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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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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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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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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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