Billie Holiday Quotes

27 Billie Holiday quotes by 25 unique 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'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 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
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
I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian… — Jeannette Walls
Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music. — Nichelle Nichols
In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people can feel it.… — Elizabeth Berkley
My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday. — Etta James
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
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
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
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
I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time. — Ruth Brown

Who Wrote These Billie Holiday Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 27 Billie Holiday Quotes as follows: