Billie Holiday Quotes

• Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Love

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

• People don’t understand the sort of fight it takes to record what you want, to record the way you want to record it.

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Mama may have, papa may have, But God bless the child that’s got his own! That’s got his own.

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Hurt

• You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Copy

• 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

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Eat, Little

• If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Sing, Writing

• I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Hate

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Play

• A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tasted, Kiss

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

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Baby, Love

• I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Play, Chance

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kill

• I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always

• 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.

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Forget

• No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Earth

• If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t got nothing.

  Billie Holiday

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Copy

Billie Holiday (28)

Birth:	7th April, 1915
Death:	17th July, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Lyricist, Singer

About

Billie Holiday was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was an American jazz singer, songwriter, and actress. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.

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Births

• 1931 - Thomas Wilson
• 1921 - Mary Douglas
• 1921 - Simone Signoret
• 1971 - Ronald Steel
• 1931 - Kenneth Haigh

Deaths

• 1980 - Milton H. Erickson
• 1983 - Thomas S. Gates Jr.
• 1977 - Nunnally Johnson
• 1976 - Josef Albers
• 1969 - Max Eastman