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Billie Holiday
American
Musician
About the author
If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
#Nothing
#Friends
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
#Hurt
#Business
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Now
#Will
#Car
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,
American
Musician
#Kids
#Mom
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
#People
#Earth
#Music
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
#Day
#Song
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,
American
Musician
#Want
#People
#Fight
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,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Love
#Work
#Eating
#Man
#Singing
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
#Fight
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
#Love
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,
American
Musician
#Life
#Love
#Body
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
#Smile
#Business
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,
American
Musician
#Play
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#Love
#Forget
#Country
#Hell
#Habit
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
#End
#Feeling
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
#Kiss
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
#Love
#Baby
#Walking
#Rain
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
#Change
#Singing
#Hate
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
#Kids
#Chance
#Years
#Play
#Old
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
Billie Holiday,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#People
#Feeling
#Earth
#Music
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,
American
Musician
#Right
#Love
#People