I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
BILLIE HOLIDAYOne day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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In this country kings or dukes don’t amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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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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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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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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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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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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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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