Billie Holiday Quotes

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

love cynical

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

Love is like a faucet. It turns off and on.
Sometimes when you think it's on, baby,
It has turned off and gone.

love

All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

drugs

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.

musicians