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.
BILLIE HOLIDAYAll dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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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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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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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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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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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 difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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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 hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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I 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.
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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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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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