Don’t be in such a hurry.
BILLIE HOLIDAYSinging 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.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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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 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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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 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 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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You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.
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If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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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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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can’t sing.
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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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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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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