“Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.”
Billie Holiday“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”
Billie Holiday“And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday. p. 81”
Clare Vanderpool, Navigating Early“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“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“I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.”
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“Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.”
Billie Holiday“I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.”
Billie Holiday“There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.”
Billie Holiday