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. — Billie Holiday
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know. — Billie Holiday
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. — Billie Holiday
If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike — Billie Holiday
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
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough. — Billie Holiday
People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it. — Billie Holiday
Singing songs like ‘the man I love’ or ‘porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and — Billie Holiday
There’s no damn business like show business – you have to smile to keep from throwing up. — Billie Holiday
They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be — Billie Holiday
You can’t copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling. — Billie Holiday
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. — Billie Holiday
Mom and pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. — Billie Holiday
No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music. — Billie Holiday