The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
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 mus… - 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 mus…
- Billie Holiday
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing. - Billie Holiday
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. - Billie Holiday
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough. - Billie Holiday
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
When you sing, always tell the truth. - Billie Holiday
When you sing, always tell the truth.
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. - Billie Holiday
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
If nobody can learn from the past, then there's no point in raking it up. - Billie Holiday
If nobody can learn from the past, then there's no point in raking it up.
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody. - Billie Holiday
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while. - Billie Holiday
The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
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