About Billie Holiday

By Billie Holiday

• "I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music."
• "Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough."
• "Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain"
• "Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on."
• "If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all."
• "A kiss that is never tasted, is forever wasted."
• "I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know."
• "If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing."
• "If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling."
• "I'm always making a comeback, but nobody ever tells me where I've been."
• "I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old."
• "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music."
• "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."
• "Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose."