Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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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 can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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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 don’t think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.
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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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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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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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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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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 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 blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy … it’s sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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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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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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