I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words. — 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 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
Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part… — 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
