If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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 never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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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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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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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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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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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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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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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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All dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
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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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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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