A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
BILLIE HOLIDAYAnd when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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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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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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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 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 nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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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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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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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 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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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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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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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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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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