A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI never sing a song the same way twice.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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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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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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The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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When you sing, always tell the truth.
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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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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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The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy … it’s sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
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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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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
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