Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. — 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 of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. — 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 never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
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 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, it's close… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
