My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.
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DIANA ROSS Well, I like Charlie Parker, Ella, Billie Holiday.
AARON NEVILLE I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Bill...
BEA ARTHUR Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the...
DICK DALE My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he we...
TORI AMOS My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano...
TIM CURRY As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents wer...
ALANIS MORISSETTE I don't really dress up for Halloween.
KATHARINE MCPHEE America is a country with so much opportunity. I'm living the blessings of what this country off...
KATHARINE MCPHEE Popularity is totally overrated.
KATHLEEN HANNA I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my f...
KATHY MATTEA If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices tha...
KATHY MATTEA Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looki...
KEITH SWEAT As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out what's in it.
KELIS My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know w...
JACK WHITE Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
JACKIE EVANCHO I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it wa...
IMELDA MAY Everybody seems to think Madeleine sounds like Billie Holiday, ... I think that's OK, but it's reall...
MARIAN MCPARTLAND I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.
RUTH BROWN I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary j...
MADELEINE PEYROUX I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
NASTASSJA KINSKI My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.
ELIZABETH KENNY I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
ABBEY LINCOLN Sir James waved a gnarled hand. "They're nothing but feral file clerks, dragons. They used to alphab...
RACHEL HARTMAN Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also...
ALEX CLARE The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, ...
ELLA EYRE It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be fu...
CURTIS JONES If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it...
BARBRA STREISAND My mom used to tell me, “I don’t like my mother, but I love her.
ASPEN MATIS There were his young barbarians all at play
There was their Dacian mother--he, their sire,
But...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all th...
BOB IGER I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric g...
EVAN RACHEL WOOD I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, tha...
ERYKAH BADU There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
BILLY SUNDAY You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without a...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to d...
BILLIE HOLIDAY You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for mile...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or te...
BILLIE HOLIDAY In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outs...
BILLIE HOLIDAY If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be ...
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 Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
BILLIE HOLIDAY A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
BILLIE HOLIDAY I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
BILLIE HOLIDAY There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Love is like a faucet (it turns off and on).
BILLIE HOLIDAY Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
BILLIE HOLIDAY [4. Dianne Reeves She supplies the lush jazz vocals in] Good Night, and Good Luck ... Billie & Me.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do fo...
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BILLIE HOLIDAY Blueprint of a Lady
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BILLIE HOLIDAY I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
BILLIE HOLIDAY If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
BILLIE HOLIDAY I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
BILLIE HOLIDAY They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it mean...
BILLIE HOLIDAY All dope can do for you is kill you . . . the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love rig...
BILLIE HOLIDAY If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY They think they can make fuel from horse manure - Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
BILLIE HOLIDAY You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I...
BILLIE HOLIDAY You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Money, you have lots of friendshanging round the door.When it's goneand the spending endsThey don't ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Don't threaten me with love, baby
BILLIE HOLIDAY Terror runs for king I said. It is better to explore within. We were apes before we spoke of sin. Th...
BILLIE HOLIDAY If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and...
BILLIE HOLIDAY One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
BILLIE HOLIDAY If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
BILLIE HOLIDAY People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you wan...
BILLIE HOLIDAY There's no damn business like show business -- you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Mama may have, papa may have,But God bless the child that's got his own!
BILLIE HOLIDAY Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and...
BILLIE HOLIDAY In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinem...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
BILLIE HOLIDAY You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY You can be up to your boobies in
white satin, with gardenias in your hair
and no sugar c...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
BILLIE HOLIDAY You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
BILLIE HOLIDAY If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
BILLIE HOLIDAY People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
BILLIE HOLIDAY If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
BILLIE HOLIDAY I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.
MARY J. BLIGE I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record ...
TONY BENNETT Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for ...
WOLE SOYINKA My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a do...
FIONA SHAW I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother...
KAJOL I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and...
PATSY KENSIT These wrinkles are nothing
These gray hairs are nothing,
This stomach which sags
with...
MARK STRAND My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone...
YAEL NAIM I was playing backyard football wanting to play organized football, but my mother wouldn't let me.
CARNELL WILLIAMS My mother used to fight with me. She said, 'If you don't work, how will you eat?' I never refused my...
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JAMES MADISON Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over...
JAMES MADISON The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is...
JAMES MADISON In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take ...
JAMES MADISON War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea...
JAMES MADISON The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is t...
JAMES MADISON I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinate...
JAMES MADISON It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ...
JAMES MADISON A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue t...
JAMES MADISON Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
JAMES THURBER Love is what you've been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER Buy a book in brown paper
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To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut....
JAMES PUREFOY Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanat...
JAMES SINEGAL