I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
More Quotes from Billie Holiday:
So I asked him to play 'Trav'lin' All Alone.' That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor.... When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.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
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
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
Billie Holiday
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
Billie Holiday
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