One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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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 never sing a song the same way twice.
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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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Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you – and kill you the long, slow, hard way.
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.
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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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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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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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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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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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