Billie holiday Quote by Frank Sinatra Download Open image “It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.” — Frank Sinatra ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Billie holiday Holiday Influence Music Musical Musical influence Remains Stills
[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
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
I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do. — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
I really pulled from that repertoire that Billie Holiday was singing, and the way she sang it. It's sort of this beautiful, not really… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why -… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?' — Diana Ross 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
Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
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 when she sang ... So I liked the feeling that Louis got and I wanted the big volume that Bessie Smith got. But I found that it didn't work with me, because I didn't have… — Billie Holiday Copy Share
[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. — Frank Sinatra 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
I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Start spreading the news, I am leaving today. I want to be a part of it, New York, New York. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on… — Frank Sinatra 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, an old podium that once held a Bible, on which we have repurposed an old chemistry handbook as the Book of Lilith. In its pages is our own liturgical calendar: Saint Clementine and All Wayfarers; Saints… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share
[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 forty-four, her liver destroyed by drinking; I was there inside the hotel room of Charlie Parker, my singular jazz saxophonist, who died in his midthirties, but whose body was so ravaged by drugs the coroners thought… — Mitch Albom Copy Share
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 recognizable vocal things that she does, which are great. But I wanted to, with this project, start the conversation again about her as a radical feminist, as a civil rights activist - taking a stance. And… — Jose James Copy Share
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