People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI joined Count Basie’s band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn’t see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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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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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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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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The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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