Frasi di Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Data di nascita: 7. Aprile 1915
Data di morte: 17. Luglio 1959
Eleanora Fagan, o Elinore Harris, nota come Billie Holiday o Lady Day , è stata una cantante statunitense, fra le più grandi di tutti i tempi nei generi jazz e blues.
Nata da genitori non sposati, Sarah Julia Fagan e il musicista Clarence Halliday, noto come Clarence Holiday, quando scelse il suo nome d'arte prese il cognome d'arte del padre e il nome "Billie" in omaggio all'attrice Billie Dove. Wikipedia
Frasi Billie Holiday
La signora canta il Blues
La signora canta il Blues
La signora canta il Blues
Origine: Luogo in cui fu in arresto per 4 mesi.
Origine: La signora canta il Blues, p. 5
Origine: La signora canta il Blues, p. 59
„No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.“
— Billie Holiday, libro Lady Sings the Blues
Origine: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 4.
„I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.“
— Billie Holiday, libro Lady Sings the Blues
Origine: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 23.
„Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own.“
God Bless The Child
Contesto: Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose
So the Bible said and it still is news
Mama may have, Papa may have
But God bless the child that's got his own
That's got his own.
— Billie Holiday, libro Lady Sings the Blues
Origine: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 24.
"Strange Fruit" (1939). Though Holiday's renditions made this anti-lynching song famous, it was written by Abel Meeropol (using his pseudonym "Lewis Allen").
Misattributed
„Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.“
— Billie Holiday, libro Lady Sings the Blues
Origine: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 20.
