Best Billie Quotes
52 Billie quotes by 48 unique authors
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If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel…
— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.
— Etta James
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I really like Billie Holiday's husky voice, and I'd definitely like to find out more about her.
— Michelle Ryan
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There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.
— Mike Dirnt
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Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday.…
— Tony Bennett
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Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.
— Theophilus London
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The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful…
— Tre Cool
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I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.
— Idris Elba
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I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for…
— Siobhan Fahey
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
— Sally Ride
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
— Barbra Streisand
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I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the…
— Florence Welch
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Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.
— Serena Williams
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You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.
— Gordon Korman
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Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white,…
— Pete Hamill
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz…
— Yael Naim
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I was inspired by Billie Holliday, and I really liked Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las because she wore tight trousers and a waistcoat on top…
— Suzi Quatro
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I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.
— Ruth Brown
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I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
— Abbey Lincoln
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I think Billie is the kind of girl who would let her hips swing loose.
— Judy Holliday
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When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that.
— Judy Holliday
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I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how…
— Ahmet Ertegun
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Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
— Bobby Riggs
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Attitude is very rude Boo, crabby like seafood, it turns me on like Vassey and Lahrule, they call me Starky Love-hun, check the strategy, by…
— Ghostface Killah
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Know she shining bright, got on my cartier, she my billie jean we minaj with mary jane. See we city hop, Vegas to LA, brings…
— Rick Ross
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