The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
“You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music,… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. — Billie Holiday Copy Share
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. — Billie Holiday Copy Share
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel. — Billie Holiday Copy Share
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… — Billie Holiday Copy Share
Money, you have lots of friends hanging round the door. When it's gone and the spending ends They don't come no more. — Billie Holiday Copy Share
I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to do my hair like… — Billie Holiday Copy Share
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;… — Billie Holiday Copy Share
