A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
BILLIE HOLIDAYLove is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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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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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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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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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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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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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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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You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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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 try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
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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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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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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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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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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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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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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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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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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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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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