God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
BILLIE HOLIDAYIf I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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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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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 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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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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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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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 only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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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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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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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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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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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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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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