Quotes by Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.

Growing Up

Poor

Poverty

Don’t be in such a hurry.

Last Words

Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.

Baby

Love

Music

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.

Dope

Long

Play

God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

Believe

Blessed

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

Night

Song

Years

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.

Exercise

Night

Song

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.

Blue

Home

Years

I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.

Hurt

Liberty

Mind Your Own Business

I never sing a song the same way twice.

Jazz

Song

Way

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African American

Baby

Believe

Black

Black History

Blessed

Blue

Body

Cities

Country

Damn

Dope

Ducks

Exercise

Fall

Feelings

Growing Up

Hair

Heart

Holding On

Holiday

Home

House

Hunger

Hurt

Impossible

Iron

Jazz

Kings

Last Words

Learn From The Past

Liberty

Littles

Long

Love

Lust

Mean

Men

Mind Your Own Business

Motivational

Music

New Orleans

Night

No Point

Nylon

One Day

Orchestra

Past

Pits

Play

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Quotes by Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.

Don’t be in such a hurry.

Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.

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.

God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

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

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.

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.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.

I never sing a song the same way twice.

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