I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
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. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
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.
If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
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.
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
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.
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
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.
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
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.
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
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.
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
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.
I love Billie Holliday. Thanks for sharing.
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