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Billie Holiday [1915-1959] American

Rank: 101
Musician

Eleanora Fagan, professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

Music, Business, Love, Anger, Car, Chance, Dating, Mom, Smile

Quote	Tags	Rank
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.	Anger	101
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.	Music	102
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.	Mom	103
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.	Music	104
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.		105
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.	Business	106
All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.		107
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.	Love	108
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.		109
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.		110
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.		111
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 music.	Music	112
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.	Love	113
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.	Dating	114
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.		115
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.	Business, Smile	116
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.		117
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.		118
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.	Chance	119
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.		120
If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.		121
People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.		122
One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.		123
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.	Car	124

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