Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.
I think Billie is the kind of girl who would let her hips swing loose.
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.
I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.
I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that.
Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ('playing out of ones mind,' or 'over ones head') to describe their performances while winning the finals at Wimbledon in 1975. ... The player loses himself in the action, continually breaking the false limits placed on is potential. Awareness becomes acutely heightened, while analysis, anxiety and self-conscious thought are completely forgotten. Enjoyment is at a peak pure and unspoiled.
The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.
I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.
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