Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
BILLIE HOLIDAYIn 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.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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I joined Count Basie’s band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn’t see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
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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. 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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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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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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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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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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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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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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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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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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