A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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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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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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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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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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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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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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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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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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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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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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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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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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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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