Billie Holiday Quotes
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Billie Holiday Quotes
- Name:
- Billie Holiday
- Type:
- Musician
- Nationality:
- American
- Birth day:
- April 7
- Birth year:
- 1915
- 1
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. Billie Holiday
- 2
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
- 3
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Billie Holiday
- 4
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. Billie Holiday
- 5
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
- 6
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. Billie Holiday
- 7
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own. Billie Holiday
- 8
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been. Billie Holiday
- 9
If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing. Billie Holiday
- 10
If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing. Billie Holiday
- 11
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. Billie Holiday
- 12
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on. Billie Holiday
- 13
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
- 14
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
- 15
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough. Billie Holiday
- 16
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. Billie Holiday
- 17
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up. Billie Holiday
- 18
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
- 19
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. 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
- 20
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. Billie Holiday
- 21
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