I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
BILLIE HOLIDAYAll dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
More Billie Holiday Quotes
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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God bless the child that’s got his own.
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my 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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If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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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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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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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.
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I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.
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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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If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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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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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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