Billie holiday Quote by Robbie Robertson Download Open image “The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever.” — Robbie Robertson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Billie holiday Coolest Coolest thing Ever Holiday Kid Knows Thing Who
I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was… — Robbie Robertson 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 thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I think Billie is the kind of girl who would let her hips swing loose. — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot from my mom and my dad. I learn a lot every time I watch Billie perform. — Finneas 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
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth. — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be. — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp. — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums... '… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry. — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me. — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio. — Robbie Robertson 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