Billie Holiday Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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).

• 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

  Song, Men, Ducks

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.51, Broadway Books

• I never sing a song the same way twice.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Way, Jazz

• I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Night, Years

  Lady Sings the Blues ch. 4 (1956).

• One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Umpires, One Day

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

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

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Singing, Way

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