Billie Holiday Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.”