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Quotes of Billie Holiday (Usa)
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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. (slavery)
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. (kisses and kissing)
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain. (unknown)
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. (song and singing)
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I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. (song and singing)
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know. (song and singing)
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. (chance)
I‘m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been. (unknown)
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t got nothing (friends and friendsh)
If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all. (friends and friendsh)
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. (music)
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. (unknown)
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. (country)
Love is like a faucet (it turns off and on). (love)
Mama may have, papa may have,
But God bless the child that’s got his own! (unknown)
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. (unknown)
Money, you have lots of friends
hanging round the door.
When it’s gone
and the spending ends
They don’t come no more. (money)
No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music. (music)
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head. (unknown)
People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it. (people)
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. (song and singing)
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough. (unknown)
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose. (unknown)
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. (unknown)
There’s no damn business like show business — you have to smile to keep from throwing up. (business)
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