I don’t think I’m singing. I feel like I’m playing a horn, What comes out is what I feel.
BILLIE HOLIDAYLove is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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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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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 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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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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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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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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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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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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