Orchestra Pit Quotes by Billie Holiday

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Billie Holiday has 46 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn…
• I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music,…
• In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is…
• All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right…
• If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.
• The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
• Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and…
• I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything…
• Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
• The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.
• The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
• In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was…

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