“She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
One day, I'd like to tackle a biopic. I grew up very influenced by Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone. — Zazie Beetz Copy Share Image
My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice. — Borns Copy Share Image
Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Clara said that Billie Holiday woke up crying. Clara said that if you sing the blues, you know that if you can’t… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“By the way, Reb, about the singing. What gives? Walt Whitman sang the body electric. Billie Holiday sang the blues. You sang…everything.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
My father was a part of that generation, and my mother, too - the late-'30s, early-'40s big-band generation. Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey,… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people… — Elizabeth Berkley Copy Share Image
I grew up a huge Roy Orbison fan. He had such a crazy range. And I grew up listening to old jazz,… — Borns Copy Share Image
John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I really pulled from that repertoire that Billie Holiday was singing, and the way she sang it. It's sort of this beautiful,… — Jose James Copy Share Image
I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time. — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?' — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era. — Bob Iger Copy Share Image
I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday. — Nastassja Kinski Copy Share Image
I certainly knew who was there before me - Nat King Cole, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Billie Holiday - not only because… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do. — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
“What can we learn from women like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday that we may not be able to… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
