Because Quote by Ruth Brown Download Open image “I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.” — Ruth Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Because Billie holiday Heard Holiday She Time Trying Voice
I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was… — Susannah McCorkle 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… — Billie Holiday 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
I really like Billie Holiday's husky voice, and I'd definitely like to find out more about her. — Michelle Ryan Copy Share Image
What I really didn't want to do is work with other people and have them go, 'Oh, Finneas just does that sound for everybody.'… — Finneas Copy Share Image
It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. — Frank Sinatra 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
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
Jason [Moran] and John [Patitucci] and Eric [Harland] knew it was a Billie Holiday tribute. I'm sure they assumed it was going to be… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity.… — Sarah Vaughan 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
Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you. — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics. — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now. — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through. — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them. — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and… — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing… — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing… — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
There were songs that we cut out after we chose the name, because 'Praise Break' turned out to be an underlying concept that I… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
![“Jason [Moran] and John [Patitucci] and Eric [Harland] knew it was a Billie Holiday tribute. I'm sure they assumed it was going to be like another singer date, where we just have a bunch of charts and they write them down and they got paid and kind of moved on. There's nothing wrong with that, but…” quote by Jose James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/caf/jose-james-22349_billie-holiday_jason-moran-and-john-patitucci-and-eric_1495513.jpg)
