Billie Holiday - Sing Quotes

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I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

Billie Holiday

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

I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

Billie Holiday

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing.

Billie Holiday

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

Billie Holiday