Billie holiday Quote by Etta James Download Open image “My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.” — Etta James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Billie holiday Holiday Mother Parenting Play Used
It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time. — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
My mom who was deadset against anything country. I remember being a kid and my dad would play Conway Twitty and she would say,… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do. — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
My mother was the only musician. She played piano and she sang. She also played saxophone. And she played at home a lot. — David Steward Copy Share Image
I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole.… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
I certainly knew who was there before me - Nat King Cole, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Billie Holiday - not only because that was… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly. — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
My mother sang. But back in the day, it was looked down upon if the lady of the house wanted to sing in public.… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And I’d like to know it’s more than love at… — Etta James Copy Share Image
People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies. — Etta James Copy Share Image
My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those… — Etta James Copy Share Image
I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to… — Etta James Copy Share Image
Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang. — Etta James Copy Share Image
What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I… — Etta James Copy Share Image
The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul. — Etta James Copy Share Image
See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip,… — Etta James Copy Share Image
That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was… — Etta James Copy Share Image
You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You… — Etta James Copy Share Image
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,… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word. — Leonard Feather Copy Share Image
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood… — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
The other songs [of Billie Holiday] - "Body and Soul" is like the standard - I also wanted some songs that I knew I… — Jose James Copy Share Image
“Beyond the table, there is an altar, with candles lit for Billie Holiday and Willa Carter and Hypatia and Patsy Cline. Next to it,… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
“He died at forty-two. I was there to collect his talent. I was there at the hospital deathbed of my beloved Billie Holiday, just… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I know I idolise someone like Billie Holiday, but I don't look at her and think I have to imitate her lifestyle, to try… — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of the very… — Jose James Copy Share Image
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
![“The other songs [of Billie Holiday] - "Body and Soul" is like the standard - I also wanted some songs that I knew I would sound good on, as a producer. It's been the same nine songs since I debuted it back in 2012.” quote by Jose James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/134/jose-james-22349_billie-holiday_the-other-songs-of-billie-holiday-body-a_260885.jpg)
![“[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about.” quote by Jose James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ba/jose-james-22349_billie-holiday_billie-holiday-was-keeping-it-super-real_313883.jpg)
