God bless the child that’s got his own.
BILLIE HOLIDAYGod has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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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Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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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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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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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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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 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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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 don’t think I’m singing. I feel like I’m playing a horn, What comes out is what I feel.
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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 never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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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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