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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'


Diana Ross

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BARBRA STREISAND I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, hel...
ERYKAH BADU I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time.
RUTH BROWN Well, I like Charlie Parker, Ella, Billie Holiday.
AARON NEVILLE My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano...
TIM CURRY The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record ...
TONY BENNETT My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.
ETTA JAMES I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, tha...
ERYKAH BADU Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for B...
PETE HAMILL When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, ...
JOSE JAMES I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
NASTASSJA KINSKI 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 loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
ABBEY LINCOLN My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing ...
JILL SCOTT There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she&...
HOZIER 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 Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for ...
WOLE SOYINKA I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all th...
BOB IGER In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When ...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY Everybody seems to think Madeleine sounds like Billie Holiday, ... I think that's OK, but it's reall...
MARIAN MCPARTLAND The best vocalists I can think of are female. There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella F...
HOZIER I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United ...
CHARLIE HADEN There's this great thing called the 'Chitlin' Circuit,' which I started my shows on ...
TYLER PERRY When I worked with Billie Jean King and Craig Kardon, and we would be working on something, Billie w...
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie...
QUINCY JONES I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix o...
Q-TIP I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Bill...
BEA ARTHUR Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can...
JANIS JOPLIN I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.'
RAIN Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
MADONNA CICCONE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming ...
CHARLIE HADEN Who's more important than Diana Ross?
DON CORNELIUS I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the ...
JEANNETTE WALLS We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it...
IAN AXEL Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.
BOBBY RIGGS It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON When we talk about my music, it's a cross between Tina Turner, Alanis Morrisette, and Diana Ross...
WYNTER GORDON I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
KAT DENNINGS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON 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 Southern trees bear strange fruit,Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,Black bodies swinging in...
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

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DIANA GABALDON So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?"
"All the time," she s...
DIANA GABALDON ' his wife recalled. ''I used to say, 'Charlie's asleep.' He was always so calm.
DIANA WILLIAMS HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug : Heave...
PRINCESS DIANA Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
PRINCESS DIANA If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it&...
DIANA GABALDON No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind ...
DIANA GABALDON I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, t...
DIANA GABALDON You're tearin' my guts out, Claire.
DIANA GABALDON Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.
DIANA GABALDON Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault,...
DIANA GABALDON There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna g...
DIANA GABALDON Ye werena the first lass I kissed," he said softly. "But I swear you'll be the last.
DIANA GABALDON I had one last try.
"Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before an...
DIANA GABALDON We're looking at swells in the 15- to 19-foot range Saturday morning, coinciding with a high tide at...
DIANA HENDERSON The key with Merrill is they're not as dependent on some of the venture capital private equity gains...
DIANA YATES I grew up in Flagstaff, and I still own my old family house up there, so I go up there a couple of t...
DIANA GABALDON It was exhilarating. If you were talented, it was easy to rise through the ranks if you knew what yo...
DIANA PETERS