Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
BILLIE HOLIDAYAnd when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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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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You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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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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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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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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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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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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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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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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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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