God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
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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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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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All dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
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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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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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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 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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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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