Showing posts with label Billie Holiday Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Billie Holiday Quotes. Show all posts
Billie Holiday Quotes
"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
Billie Holiday Quotes
"I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"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
Billie Holiday Quotes
"I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got when she sang ... So I liked the feeling that Louis got and I wanted the big volume that Bessie Smith got. But I found that it didn't work with me, because I didn't have a big voice. So anyway between the two of them I sorta got Billie Holiday." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"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
Billie Holiday Quotes
"You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"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
Billie Holiday Quotes
"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"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
Billie Holiday Quotes
"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
Billie Holiday Quotes
"No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." - Billie Holiday
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
Billie Holiday Quotes
"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
Billie Holiday Quotes
"I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own." - Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday Quotes
"I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old." - Billie Holiday
