All Billie Holiday Quotes
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
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
Billie Holiday
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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
Billie Holiday
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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
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
Billie Holiday
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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Billie Holiday
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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
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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
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No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Billie Holiday
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Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
Billie Holiday
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If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
Billie Holiday
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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
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