One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
BILLIE HOLIDAYDon’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
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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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If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.
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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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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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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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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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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 never sing a song the same way twice.
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