Quotes by Billie Holiday

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

#Billie Holiday

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

#Billie Holiday

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in...

#Billie Holiday

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

#Billie Holiday

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

#Billie Holiday

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

#Billie Holiday

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

#Billie Holiday

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of...

#Billie Holiday

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All...

#Drugs

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was...

#Memory, #Parents, #Problems

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working...

#Children, #Humanity, #Marriage

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

#Individuality, #Song