God bless the child that’s got his own.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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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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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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I joined Count Basie’s band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn’t see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
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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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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my 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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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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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 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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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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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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