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


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You can't copy anybody and end with anything. 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.

Billie Holiday

Tag: music



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Love is like a faucet: it turns on and off.

Billie Holiday


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

Billie Holiday

Tag: writing songs singer actress billie-holiday



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

Billie Holiday


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Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.

Billie Holiday


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You've got to have something to eat

Billie Holiday


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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.

Billie Holiday

Tag: america addiction



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