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Billie Holiday Quotes

Best Quotes by Billie Holiday (Top 10)

  1. Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
  2. 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.
  3. Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
  4. You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
  5. I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
  9. I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
  10. Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

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