You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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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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All dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
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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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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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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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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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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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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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