I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
BILLIE HOLIDAYGod has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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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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I’ve been told that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do.
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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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Don’t be in such a hurry.
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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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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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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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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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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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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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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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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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The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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