Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
BILLIE HOLIDAYYou 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.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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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’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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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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Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
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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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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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There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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