Billie Holiday Quotes

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

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

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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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• Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.

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• They 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.

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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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• Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.

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Billie Holiday (28)

Birth:	7th April, 1915
Death:	17th July, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Lyricist, Singer

About

Billie Holiday was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was an American jazz singer, songwriter, and actress. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.

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