Billie Holiday Quotes

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

Love, Rain, Baby

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

Love, Off, Faucet

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

Kiss, Forever, Wasted

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

Making, Nobody, Comeback

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

Enough, Said, Once

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

Business, Hurt, Nobody

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

End, Feeling, Real

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

Someone, Else, Sing

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

Nothing, Friends

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

Music, Two, Earth

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

Music, Feeling, Real

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

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

Life, Love, Before

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

Love, Long, Hard

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, Forget, Country

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, Long, Hard

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, Hate, Singing

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

Play, Working, Old

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

Place, Whole, Song

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

Fight, Understand, Takes

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

Love, Work, Down

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

Fight, Win, Sometimes

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

Business, Smile, Keep

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: April 7, 1915

Died: July 17, 1959

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