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.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI 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.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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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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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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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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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
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Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
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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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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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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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I don’t think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.
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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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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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