38 ordspråk av Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
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.
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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.
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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.
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Love is like a faucet (it turns off and on).
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Love is like a faucet (it turns off and on).
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Mama may have, papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own!
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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.
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Money, you have lots of friends hanging round the door. When it's gone and the spending ends They don't come no more.
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No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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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.
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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.
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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
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Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
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