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