God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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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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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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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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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 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 try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
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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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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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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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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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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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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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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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