Collected Meditations
Showing 22 quotesThey think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.— Billie Holiday
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
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.— Billie Holiday
I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to do my hair like her, and eventually, I borrowed her name.— Billie Holiday
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
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
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.— Billie Holiday
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.— Billie Holiday
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.— Billie Holiday
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
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.— Billie Holiday
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Smile
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.— Billie Holiday
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Music