When you sing, always tell the truth.
BILLIE HOLIDAYA kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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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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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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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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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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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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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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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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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.
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