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Billie Holiday (Singer)

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
— Billie Holiday love
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
— Billie Holiday work
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 art
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
— Billie Holiday art
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 kids
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
— Billie Holiday sin
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
— Billie Holiday kiss
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
— Billie Holiday business
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
— Billie Holiday 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 music
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 love
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 love
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
— Billie Holiday love
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
— Billie Holiday body
If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
— Billie Holiday friends
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
— Billie Holiday body
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 love
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
— Billie Holiday art
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 man
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 fight
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
— Billie Holiday change
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 love
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
— Billie Holiday time
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
— Billie Holiday song
Dont threaten me with love, baby. Lets just go walking in the rain.
— Billie Holiday love

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