One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
BILLIE HOLIDAYIf I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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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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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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I 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.
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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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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 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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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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People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
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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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