Billie Holiday - Love Quotes

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Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you — and kill you the long, slow, hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Billie Holiday
I've been told that nobody sings the word "hunger" like I do. Or the word "love."

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
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
Lord I love my man, tell the world I do
I love my man, tell the world I do
But when he mistreats me
Makes me feel so blue.

Billie Holiday
Who love my man, I'm a liar if I say I don't
But I'll quit my man, I'm a liar if I say I won't.

Billie Holiday
Singing songs like the '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
Love is just like a faucet,
It turns off and on,
And sometimes when you think it's on, baby,
It has turned off and gone.

Billie Holiday
Hush now, don't explain
You're my joy and pain
My life's yours love
Don't explain.

Billie Holiday