Billie Holiday Music Quotations

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

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

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

When you sing, always tell the truth.

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

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

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

If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.

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