If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
BILLIE HOLIDAYDon’t be in such a hurry.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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 whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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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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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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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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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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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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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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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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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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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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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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