Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
BILLIE HOLIDAYWhen you sing, always tell the truth.
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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Them that’s got shall get, Them that’s not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that’s got his own.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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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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In this country kings or dukes don’t amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.
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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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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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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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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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