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Billie Holiday Quotes

Billie Holiday Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Billie Holiday
Type:
Musician
Nationality:
American
Birth day:
April 7
Birth year:
1915

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    A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    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-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    Don't threaten me with love, baby. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    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-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
  • 8
    I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    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-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up. Billie-HolidayBillie 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-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    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-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. Billie-HolidayBillie Holiday
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    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/">Billie Holiday