If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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 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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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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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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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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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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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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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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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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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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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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