Billie Holiday Quotes
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You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on…
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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 order…
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In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those…
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All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
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If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.
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The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast…
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I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside…
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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
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The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.
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The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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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; so…
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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…
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I never sing a song the same way twice.
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When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good…
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People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
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I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.
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I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
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