Billie Holiday Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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