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

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

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

- Billie Holiday

When you sing, always tell the truth.

- Billie Holiday

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

- Billie Holiday

If nobody can learn from the past, then there's no point in raking it up.

- Billie Holiday

God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

- Billie Holiday

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

- Billie Holiday