Don’t be in such a hurry.
BILLIE HOLIDAYLust 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.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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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.
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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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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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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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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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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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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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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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