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

~Billie Holiday

Topics: Baby Go Just Love Me Rain Threaten Walking

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

~Billie Holiday

Topics: Ever Forever Kiss Never Tasted Wasted

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You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

~Billie Holiday

Topics: Any Anybody Anything Copy End Feeling Means Real Without Working You

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

~Billie Holiday

Topics: Always Been Comeback Ever Making Me Nobody Tells Where

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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.

~Billie Holiday

Topics: Confinement Country Damn Forget Habit Hell Jail Kind Love Love You Outside Private Solitary Solitary Confinement Those Who Worst You

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I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to do my hair like her, and eventually, I borrowed her name.

~Billie Holiday

Topics: Borrowed Crazy Dove Eventually Ever Hair Her Like Made Missed Name Picture Single Think Tried I Tried

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

~Billie Holiday

Topics: Change Doing Hate Know My Own Own Singing Straight Tune Way

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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

~Billie Holiday

Topics: Damn Day Fell Head One Day Place Song Whole

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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

Topics: Couple Eighteen Got He Just Kids Married Mom Pop She Sixteen Three Were

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

~Billie Holiday

Topics: Else Going Like Need Sing Someone Then

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 7th, 1915

Died: July 17th, 1959

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