I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know. Billie Holiday More Quotes by Billie Holiday More Quotes From Billie Holiday Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough. Billie Holiday words-of-wisdomafrican-americanblack 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 realtwomean The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while. Billie Holiday impossiblelittlesmotivational I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel. Billie Holiday hornssingingthinking 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. Billie Holiday black-historywhitehair The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing. Billie Holiday singingmusicfeelings I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life. Billie Holiday feelswaythinking Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. Billie Holiday musicbabylove When you sing, always tell the truth. Billie Holiday jazzmusictelling-the-truth God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody. Billie Holiday blessedbelieve 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 dopeplaylong 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 Holiday recordsfightingpeople Don't be in such a hurry. Billie Holiday last-words 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 holidaytwothinking Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. Billie Holiday adversityfightingwinning You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. Billie Holiday musicrealmean I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own. Billie Holiday mind-your-own-businesslibertyhurt A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. Billie Holiday crushmusiclove If nobody can learn from the past, Billie Holiday learn-from-the-pastno-pointpast 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 holding-onbodylittles
