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

• I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own. (Billie Holiday)
• I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been. (Billie Holiday)
• 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)
• 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 is like a faucet, it turns off and on. (Billie Holiday)
• 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 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)
• 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)
• Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough. (Billie Holiday)
• Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. (Billie Holiday)
• There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up. (Billie Holiday)
• 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)
• You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. (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)

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