There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing 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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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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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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The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy … it’s sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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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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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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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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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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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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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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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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