If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
~ Billie Holiday
In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
