God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
BILLIE HOLIDAYDon’t be in such a hurry.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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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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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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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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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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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 never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my 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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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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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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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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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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The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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