And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
BILLIE HOLIDAYThe difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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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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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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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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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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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
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You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.
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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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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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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy … it’s sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
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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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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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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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