Armstrong Quote by Billie Holiday

I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.

— Ruth Brown

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

— Frank Sinatra

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I…

— Jose James

My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.

— Borns

Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a…

— Regina Spektor

The beauty of Billie Holiday is that she gave every singer after her the license to interpret and perform music in ways that were…

— Dianne Reeves

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others…

— Erykah Badu

The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me,…

— Doris Day

I really pulled from that repertoire that Billie Holiday was singing, and the way she sang it. It's sort of this beautiful, not really…

— Jose James

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was…

— Susannah McCorkle

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent…

— Madeleine Peyroux

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison