Billie Holiday Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Billie Holiday Quotes and Sayings
- 1
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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- 2
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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Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
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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 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 never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
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- 8
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
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- 9
If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
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- 10
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
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- 11
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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In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
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- 13
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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- 14
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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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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- 16
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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- 17
People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
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- 18
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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- 19
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
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- 20
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
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- 21
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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- 22
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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- 23
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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- 24
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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