Billie Holiday Quotes
21 quotations by Billie Holiday
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. |
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. |
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. |
They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. |
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up. |
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. |
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough. |
People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it. |
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. |
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on. |
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. |
If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing. |
If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing. |
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been. |
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own. |
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. |
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way. |
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. |
Don't threaten me with love, baby. |
All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you. |
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. |