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.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI 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.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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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 had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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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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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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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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