Don’t be in such a hurry.
BILLIE HOLIDAYIf nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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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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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
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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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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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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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The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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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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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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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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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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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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