Billie Holiday Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - Musician April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959 See also: Quotes about Billie Holiday

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

Music People Way Earth

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

You End Feeling Copy

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Me Comeback Nobody Always

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

You People Fight Way

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Someone Need Like Going

I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to do my hair like her, and eventually, I borrowed her name.

Crazy Hair Picture Name

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.

Life Love You Body

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

Kiss Dating Never Forever Wasted

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Smile Business You Damn

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.

Love You Hell Forget

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Anger Fight Win Lose Sometimes

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

Myself Business Hurt Nobody

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

Never Know Enough More

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.

Love Work Man Singing

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

Change Hate Singing Way

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.

Car Horse Think Stop

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

Love Rain Me Walking Baby

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Chance Never Play Old

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

Mom Three She Just

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Love Love Is Like Off

If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.

Friends Nothing Then Got

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

Day Song Place Damn

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