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Billie Holiday Quotes

21 quotations by Billie Holiday

QuoteYou'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.Quote

QuoteYou can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.Quote

QuoteYou 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.Quote

QuoteThey 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.Quote

QuoteThere's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.Quote

QuoteSometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.Quote

QuoteSomebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.Quote

QuotePeople don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.Quote

QuoteMom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.Quote

QuoteLove is like a faucet, it turns off and on.Quote

QuoteIf I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.Quote

QuoteIf I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.Quote

QuoteIf I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.Quote

QuoteI'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.Quote

QuoteI never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.Quote

QuoteI never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.Quote

QuoteDope 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.Quote

QuoteDon't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.Quote

QuoteDon't threaten me with love, baby.Quote

QuoteAll dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.Quote

QuoteA kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.Quote