Billie Holiday

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

#any #copy #earth #feeling #got

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#eighteen #got #i #just #kids

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

— Billie Holiday

#go #just #love #me #rain

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

#before #behave #body #damn #eat

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

#dope #hard #hard way #kill #long

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

#anything #better #dope #hard #hard way

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

— Billie Holiday

#doing #hate #i #know #my own

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

— Billie Holiday

#dolls #had #i #kids #like

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#day #fell #head #into #one day

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

#kind #people #record #takes #understand