Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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 never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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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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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it 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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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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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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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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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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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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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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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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