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All Quotes by author - Billie Holiday

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

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

" I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to do my hair like her, and eventually, I borrowed her name. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. "

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