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.
BILLIE HOLIDAYDon’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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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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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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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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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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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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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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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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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 never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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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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