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Billie Holiday

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Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
Billie Holiday
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
Billie Holiday
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.
Billie Holiday
If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
Billie Holiday
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
Billie Holiday
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.
Billie Holiday
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.
Billie Holiday
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
Billie Holiday
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
Billie Holiday
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
Billie Holiday
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Billie Holiday
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
Billie Holiday
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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.
Billie Holiday
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
Billie Holiday
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
Billie Holiday
I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to do my hair like her, and eventually, I borrowed her name.
Billie Holiday
You cant copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy it means youre working without any real feeling.
Billie Holiday
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
Billie Holiday
People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
Billie Holiday
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
Billie Holiday
Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
Billie Holiday
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
Billie Holiday
If Im going to sing like someone else then I dont need to sing at all.
Billie Holiday
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Billie Holiday
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
Billie Holiday
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.
Billie Holiday

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