And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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, 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 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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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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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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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 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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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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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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If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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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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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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