I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.
BILLIE HOLIDAYDon’t be in such a hurry.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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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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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 hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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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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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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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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I don’t think I’m singing. I feel like I’m playing a horn, What comes out is what I feel.
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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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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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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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