Don’t be in such a hurry.
BILLIE HOLIDAYThe difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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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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You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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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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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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