Don’t be in such a hurry.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
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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 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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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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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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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’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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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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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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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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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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