Billie Holiday Quotes

American - Musician April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959

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

Music People Way Earth Alike Got Two Two People

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

Like Someone Need Sing Else Going Then

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Anger Fight Lose Win Sometimes Worse Than

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

Love Rain Me Go Baby Threaten Walking Just

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

Never Chance Like Old Dolls Kids Other Kids Play Six Started Working Had Other Years

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

Never Enough Know More Once Said Somebody Until Than

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

Mom He Three She Couple Eighteen Kids Married Pop Sixteen Got Just Were

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

Me Comeback Always Nobody Making Tells Been Ever Where

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Love Love Is Like Off Faucet Turns

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

Never Dating Kiss Forever Wasted Tasted Ever

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

Change Hate Singing Way My Own Straight Tune Doing Know Own

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

Nothing Friends Got Then

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

Myself Business Never Hurt My Own Nobody Own

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Smile You Business Like Damn Keep Show Show Business Throwing Up

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

You Feeling End Copy Anybody Means Real Real Feeling Working Any Anything Without

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

Song Day Place Damn Fell Head One Day Whole

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

You People Fight Way Kind Record Takes Understand Want

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