Quotes by Billie Holiday

About Billie Holiday:

Eleanora Fagan was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo.
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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. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.

Billie Holiday

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.

Billie Holiday

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

Billie Holiday

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.

Billie Holiday

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.

Billie Holiday

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

Billie Holiday

Author Bio

  • NameBillie Holiday
  • DescriptionAmerican jazz singer and songwriter
  • AliasesEleanora Fagan; Lady Day
  • BornApril 7, 1915
  • DiedJuly 17, 1959
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Singer; Street Artist; Composer; Autobiographer; Actor; Jazz Musician
  • AwardsGrammy Lifetime Achievement Award; National Women's Hall Of Fame