A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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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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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There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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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 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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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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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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In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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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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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.
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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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