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 Copy Share Image
With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius.… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word. — Leonard Feather Copy Share Image
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in… — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
The other songs [of Billie Holiday] - "Body and Soul" is like the standard - I also wanted some songs that I… — Jose James Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in.… — Jose James Copy Share Image
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I also tried to focus on songs that Billie Holiday wrote, songs that she had a hand in shaping, like "Strange Fruit";… — Jose James Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record,… — Susannah McCorkle Copy Share Image
I couldn't get away from the gramophone. It was the only thing that I ever really liked, and I was singing along… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth. — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
“I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“And when we pressed our heads to each other's hearts how did we not hear Carmen McRae singing? In Angela's fisted hands,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My dad had a big CD collection that I would rummage through. I fell in love with powerful female vocalists: Alicia Keys,… — Raye Copy Share Image
I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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