Billie Holiday Quotes

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. 
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Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. 
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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. 
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I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know. 
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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. 
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own. 
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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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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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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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There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up. 
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You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. 
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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. 
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