One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
BILLIE HOLIDAYYou can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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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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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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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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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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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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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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