Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
BILLIE HOLIDAYI can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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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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All dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
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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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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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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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I can only sing songs my way. I don’t know any other way.
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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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If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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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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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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Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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