Billie Holiday

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. 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

#music

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

#love #life

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

— Billie Holiday

#forever #kiss #never #tasted #wasted

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

— Billie Holiday

#hurt #i #my own #myself #never

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#know #more #never #once #said

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

— Billie Holiday

#anybody #anything #copy #end #feeling

If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#got #i #nothing #then

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

— Billie Holiday

#going #i #like #need #sing

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

— Billie Holiday

#earth #got #music #people #two

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#been #comeback #ever #i #making