Billie Holiday

“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.”

“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”

“You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.”

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

“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.”

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

“If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.”

“Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.”

“Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.”

“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.”

“I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in a row. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.”

“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.”

“I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.”

“The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.”

“A bitch can be a woman who is all woman.”