If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
BILLIE HOLIDAYIf nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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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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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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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 try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.
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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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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’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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