Quotes by : Billie Holiday

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

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.

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

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

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

In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside....

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

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.