Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
BILLIE HOLIDAYA kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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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’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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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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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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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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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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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 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 can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
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In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
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The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy … it’s sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
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