A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
- Billie Holiday Quote

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 Quote

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

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
- Billie Holiday Quote

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

If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
- Billie Holiday Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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.
- Billie Holiday Quote

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
- Billie Holiday Quote

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

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 Quote

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