If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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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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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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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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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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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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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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