If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI don’t think I’m singing. I feel like I’m playing a horn, What comes out is what I feel.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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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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Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
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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 don’t think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.
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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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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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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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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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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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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 can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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