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The blues to me is like being...

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

Dope never helped anybody sin...

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 100 quotes

I think I copied my style fro...

I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got when she sang ... So I liked the feeling that Louis got and I wanted the big volume that Bessie Smith got. But I found that it didn't work with me, because I didn't have a big voice. So anyway between the two of them I sorta got Billie Holiday.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

If you think dope is for kick...

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

New Orleans is the only city ...

New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

I can't stand to sing the sam...

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

I don't think I'm singing. I ...

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

If nobody can learn from the ...

If nobody can learn from the past,
then there's no point in raking it up.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

I try to improvise like Les Y...

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

When Lester plays, he almost ...

When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

I never sing a song the same ...

I never sing a song the same way twice.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

Them that's got shall get, Th...

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

So I asked him to play "Trav'...

So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor. . . . When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

If you copy, it means you're ...

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 100 quotes

In this country kings or duke...

In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

I can't stand to sing the sam...

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

I joined Count Basie's band t...

I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

I never sing a song the same w...

I never sing a song the same way twice.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

All dope can do for you is kil...

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 100 quotes

When Lester plays, he almost s...

When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.

Billie Holiday 100 quotes

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