Billie Holiday /Eleanora Pagan Gough/ quotes Born: 04/07/1915 Died: 06/17/1959 Country: usa

• 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)
• A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. (Billie Holiday) [kiss]
• Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain. (Billie Holiday) [love]
• 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]
• 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. (Billie Holiday) [music/exercise/music]
• 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]
• I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. (Billie Holiday) [chance]
• I‘m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been. (Billie Holiday) [comeback]
• If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t got nothing (Billie Holiday)
• If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all. (Billie Holiday)
• 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) [feeling/people/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. (Billie Holiday) [think/mind/more]
• 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) [forget/habit/habit/love]
• Love is like a faucet (it turns off and on). (Billie Holiday) [love]
• Mama may have, papa may have, But God bless the child that’s got his own! (Billie Holiday) [god/child]
• 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)
• Money, you have lots of friends hanging round the door. When it’s gone and the spending ends They don’t come no more. (Billie Holiday) [money/more]
• No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music. (Billie Holiday) [people/music/music]
• One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head. (Billie Holiday) [day]
• 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) [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) [more/love]
• Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough. (Billie Holiday) [more]
• Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose. (Billie Holiday) [fight]
• 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. (Billie Holiday) [strange/blood]
• There’s no damn business like show business — you have to smile to keep from throwing up. (Billie Holiday) [business/business/smile]
• 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) [think/horse/car/willpower]
• 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)
• 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/life]
• 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)
• Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. (Billie Holiday)
• I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know. (Billie Holiday)

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