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

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Billie Holiday buch Lady Sings the Blues

Quelle: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 4.

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

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Billie Holiday

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

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Billie Holiday

“I've been your slave
Ever since I've been your babe
But before I be your dog
I'll see you in your grave.”

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Billie Holiday

Billie's Blues

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

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Billie Holiday buch Lady Sings the Blues

Quelle: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 23.

“Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose”

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God Bless The Child
Kontext: Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news
Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own.

“You can't copy anybody and end with anything. 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.”

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Billie Holiday buch Lady Sings the Blues

Variante: Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.
Quelle: Lady Sings the Blues

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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Billie Holiday buch Lady Sings the Blues

Quelle: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 11.

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

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“Lord I love my man, tell the world I do
I love my man, tell the world I do
But when he mistreats me
Makes me feel so blue.”

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Billie Holiday

Billie's Blues

“Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.”

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"Strange Fruit" (1939). Though Holiday's renditions made this anti-lynching song famous, it was written by Abel Meeropol (using his pseudonym "Lewis Allen").
Misattributed

“Money, you've got lots of friends
Crowding round the door
When you're gone, spending ends
They don't come no more
Rich relations give
Crust of bread and such
You can help yourself
But don't take too much.”

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Billie Holiday

God Bless The Child

“I ain't good looking
And my hair ain't curls
But my mother she give me something
It's going to carry me through this world.”

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Billie's Blues

“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.”

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Billie Holiday buch Lady Sings the Blues

Quelle: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 24.

“Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own.”

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“Some men like me talkin' happy
Some calls it snappy
Some call me honey
Others think I got money
Some tell me baby you're built for speed
Now if you put that all together
Makes me everything a good man needs.”

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Billie's Blues

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

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Billie Holiday buch Lady Sings the Blues

Quelle: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 20.

“I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.”

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Billie Holiday buch Lady Sings the Blues

Quelle: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 4.

“Who love my man, I'm a liar if I say I don't
But I'll quit my man, I'm a liar if I say I wont.”

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Billie Holiday

Billie's Blues

“Imagine if the government chased sick people with diabetes, put a tax on insulin and drove it into the black market, told doctors they couldn’t treat them, and then caught them, prosecuted them for not paying their taxes, and then sent them to jail. If we did that, everyone would know we were crazy. Yet we do practically the same thing every day in the week to sick people hooked on drugs. The jails are full and the problem is getting worse every day.”

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Billie Holiday buch Lady Sings the Blues

Quelle: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 17.

“[I]t takes a bad woman to be a good godmother.”

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Remark made to Rosemary Clooney, circa summer 1956, regarding Holiday's qualifications to serve as godmother to Clooney's second child, as quoted by Clooney in "Profiles: The Heart, The Head, and The Pipes" http://www.rosemaryclooney.com/_1libraryfiles/newyorker8392.html by Whitney Balliett in The New Yorker (August 3, 1992). "Just before she left, I asked her if she would like to be the godmother of my second child, Maria, who was about to be born, and she said yes, that it takes a bad woman to be a good godmother. It was the last time I saw her."