Billie holiday Quotes

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

— Tom Wopat

I really like Billie Holiday's husky voice, and I'd definitely like to find out more about her.

— Michelle Ryan

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

— Etta James

Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.

— Nichelle Nichols

“And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always…

— Clare Vanderpool

My dad had a big CD collection that I would rummage through. I fell in love with powerful female vocalists: Alicia Keys,…

— Raye

I know I idolise someone like Billie Holiday, but I don't look at her and think I have to imitate her lifestyle,…

— Lisa Stansfield

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie…

— Barbra Streisand

I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like…

— Antonia Thomas

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in.…

— Jose James

Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.

— Leonard Feather

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday…

— Evan Rachel Wood

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in…

— Tori Amos

“I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before…

— Jeffery Deaver

I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix or... I don't know, MGMT, we're…

— Q-Tip

I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make…

— Ahmet Ertegun

When I started singing, I had this lower register alto sound, which resonated with the darker timbres of voices like Ella Fitzgerald,…

— Laufey

I also tried to focus on songs that Billie Holiday wrote, songs that she had a hand in shaping, like "Strange Fruit";…

— Jose James

I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that…

— Billie Holiday

I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi…

— Jeannette Walls

The beauty of Billie Holiday is that she gave every singer after her the license to interpret and perform music in ways…

— Dianne Reeves

“She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to…

— Stephen Chbosky

“When I was little, I didn’t understand that you could change a few sounds in a name or a phrase and have…

— Lorrie Moore

“Billie Holiday Her imperfect life led to her becoming a legendary performer with a continuing influence on American music. Born Eleanora Fagan…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“He died at forty-two. I was there to collect his talent. I was there at the hospital deathbed of my beloved Billie…

— Mitch Albom

“Beyond the table, there is an altar, with candles lit for Billie Holiday and Willa Carter and Hypatia and Patsy Cline. Next…

— Carmen Maria Machado

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so…

— Tony Bennett

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record,…

— Susannah McCorkle

I recognize that my voice is kind of quirky, and I don't have a lot of range. But I use it kind…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in…

— Siobhan Fahey

If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make…

— Jose James

My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.

— Tim Curry

I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.

— Wyclef Jean

“Louis Armstrong on Mondays, Frank Sinatra on Wednesdays, Glenn Miller on Fridays, and Mozart on Sundays. Unless it was raining. If it's…

— Clare Vanderpool

Jason [Moran] and John [Patitucci] and Eric [Harland] knew it was a Billie Holiday tribute. I'm sure they assumed it was going…

— Jose James

I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so…

— Charlie Haden

I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of…

— Jose James

The other songs [of Billie Holiday] - "Body and Soul" is like the standard - I also wanted some songs that I…

— Jose James

I say that I do soul, R&B music. I have so many influences, from Billie Holiday, Nina Simone to Stevie Wonder and…

— Goapele

I actually started the whole project some years ago with a live debut at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The focus was mainly…

— Jose James