Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
BILLIE HOLIDAYIf I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
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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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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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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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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 can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.
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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’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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