Billie Holiday Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• 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).

• When you sing, always tell the truth.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Jazz, Telling The Truth

• 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).

• 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

• I never sing a song the same way twice.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Way, Jazz

• 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

• I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Jazz, Hunger

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

• When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.

  Billie Holiday

  Play, Singing, Jazz

• I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

  Billie Holiday

  Home, Blue, Years

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.70, Broadway Books

• The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

  Billie Holiday

  Fall, Pits, Orchestra

• In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.

  Billie Holiday

  Country, Kings, Men

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