Famous Quotes / Billie Holiday
12 Quotations by Billie Holiday
- 1. I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or te ...

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

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

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

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

- 6. If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be ...

- 7. In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outs ...

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

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

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

- 11. You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for mile ...

- 12. You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any ...
