The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it. — 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
