If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
BILLIE HOLIDAYSomebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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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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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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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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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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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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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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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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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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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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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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