Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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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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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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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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If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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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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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
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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 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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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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