If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
BILLIE HOLIDAYA kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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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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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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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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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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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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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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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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