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Billie Holiday
1915-1959

". . . In this modern ". . . In this modern jazz, they heard something rebel and nameless that spoke for them, and their lives knew a gospel for the first time. It was more than a music; it became an attitude toward life, a way of walking, a language and a costume; and these introverted kids... now felt somewhere at last." -John Clellon Holmes

Billie Holiday Quotes

"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music." -Billie Holiday

"Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way. " -Billie Holiday

"You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. " -Billie Holiday

"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. " -Billie Holiday

"Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough. " -Billie Holiday

"If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. " -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

"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

"No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. " -Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday on Video

Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong - The Blues Are Brewin'	"Strange Fruit" Billie Holiday	"Good Morning Heartache" Billie Holiday	"Lady Sings the Blues" Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday - Lover Man	Fine And Mellow - 1944 - Billie Holiday	Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong - Farewell to Storyville	Billie Holiday & Count Basie - God Bless the Child - Now Baby
BILLIE HOLIDAY - EASY LIVING	I'll Be Seeing You-Billie Holiday	Billie Holiday "One for my Baby (and one more for the road)"	Billie Holiday 1959 'Please Dont Talk About Me'

Billie Holiday Internet Directory

Billie Holiday A Biography	Billie Holiday (French & English)	Billie Holiday American Masters	Billie Holiday At Art and Culture
Billie Holiday The Billie Holiday Page	Billie Holiday Sessionography	California Newsreel "Strange Fruit".	Billie Holiday Music From CalPoly
Blues for Peace "God Bless the Child" (Lyrics)	HOMMAGE à BILLIE HOLIDAY French Language	Billie Holiday The Unofficial Site	Billie Holiday At "All About Jazz"
Billie Holiday At "Metro Active Stage"	Billie Holiday At PBS	Billie Holiday & Lester Young A Discography	Billie Holiday "Stormy Weather" (Lyrics)
Billie Holiday Profiling Lady Day	Billie Holiday Audio (Media Player).	Billie Holiday Lyrics @ Rare Lyrics	Billie Holiday @Wkipedia
Billie Holiday The Offical Site	Billie Holiday @ Biography.Com	Billie Holiday @ The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame	Billie Holiday Official Site on Legacy Recordings
Billie Holiday @ Think Quest		Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit Wikipedia	Kerouac Alley Books, Etc. Beat Era Jazz & Beat Generation Books
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