If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
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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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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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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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 difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.
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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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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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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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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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