Billie Quotes

52 quotes by 48 authors

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 by… — Erykah Badu
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who… — Erykah Badu
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to… — Tony Bennett
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she… — Tori Amos
I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome.… — John C. McGinley
Seriously, if you complain about going to a Paris fashion show, you have officially lost all perspective on life as we know it. And I… — Cynthia Leive
I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ… — Evan Rachel Wood
I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the… — Lucinda Williams
I think that Billie (Jean King) and Zina (Garrison), they have a whole lot of experience. Even if I don't quite agree with something or… — Venus Williams
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era. — Bob Iger
John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make… — Cornel West
I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a… — Susannah McCorkle
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth. — Tom Wopat
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is… — Madeleine Peyroux
With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie… — Frank Sinatra
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday. — Nastassja Kinski
It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. — Frank Sinatra
Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances while winning… — Timothy Gallwey
I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got… — Billie Holiday
I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices… — Bridgit Mendler

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