Billie Holiday Quotes

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  The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

  Billie Holiday

  Motivational, Littles, Impossible

  Song: Crazy He Calls Me

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

  Billie Holiday

  African American, Words Of Wisdom, Black

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.183, Broadway Books

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  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

  Real, Mean, Two

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.61, Broadway Books

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  You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

  Billie Holiday

  Hair, White, Black History

  Lady Sings the Blues ch. 11 (1956).

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• When you sing, always tell the truth.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Jazz, Telling The Truth

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• If nobody can learn from the past,
  then there's no point in raking it up.

  Billie Holiday

  Past, Learn From The Past, No Point

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• The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Feelings, Singing

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.163, Broadway Books

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  God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

  Billie Holiday

  Believe, Blessed

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.219, Broadway Books

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• I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.

  Billie Holiday

  Thinking, Way, Feels

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

  Billie Holiday

  Imagination, Individuality, Needs

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

  Billie Holiday

  Love, Music, Baby

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• Don't be in such a hurry.

  Billie Holiday

  Last Words

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• I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

  Billie Holiday

  Thinking, Singing, Horns

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

  Billie Holiday

  Inspirational, Success, Music

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.212, Broadway Books

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• Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

  Billie Holiday

  Adversity, Fighting, Winning

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (1956). “Lady sings the blues”

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• 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

  Dope, Play, Long

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.215, Broadway Books

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• 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

  Body, Littles, Holding On

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

  Billie Holiday

  Love, Music, Crush

  Song: For All We Know

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• 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

  Fighting, People, Records

  record it. 1956 Lady Sings the Blues, with William Duffy.

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• I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Singing, Way

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• I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

  Billie Holiday

  Hurt, Mind Your Own Business, Liberty

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• I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Exercise, Night

  Lady Sings the Blues ch. 4 (1956).

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• I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

  Billie Holiday

  Change, Music, Hate

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• Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

  Billie Holiday

  Wisdom, Children, Papa

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.108, Broadway Books

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

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Real, Mean

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.61, Broadway Books

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