Frasi di Billie Holiday (36 frasi, pagina 2)

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.

„You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.“

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— Billie Holiday, libro Lady Sings the Blues

Variante: Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.
Origine: Lady Sings the Blues

„If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.“

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— Billie Holiday

„Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.“

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— Billie Holiday

„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.“

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— Billie Holiday, libro Lady Sings the Blues

Origine: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 4.

„Who love my man, I'm a liar if I say I don't
But I'll quit my man, I'm a liar if I say I wont.“

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— Billie Holiday

Billie's Blues

„Imagine if the government chased sick people with diabetes, put a tax on insulin and drove it into the black market, told doctors they couldn’t treat them, and then caught them, prosecuted them for not paying their taxes, and then sent them to jail. If we did that, everyone would know we were crazy. Yet we do practically the same thing every day in the week to sick people hooked on drugs. The jails are full and the problem is getting worse every day.“

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— Billie Holiday, libro Lady Sings the Blues

Origine: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 17.

„[I]t takes a bad woman to be a good godmother.“

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— Billie Holiday

Remark made to Rosemary Clooney, circa summer 1956, regarding Holiday's qualifications to serve as godmother to Clooney's second child, as quoted by Clooney in "Profiles: The Heart, The Head, and The Pipes" http://www.rosemaryclooney.com/_1libraryfiles/newyorker8392.html by Whitney Balliett in The New Yorker (August 3, 1992). "Just before she left, I asked her if she would like to be the godmother of my second child, Maria, who was about to be born, and she said yes, that it takes a bad woman to be a good godmother. It was the last time I saw her."

„I've been told that nobody sings the word "hunger" like I do. Or the word "love."“

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— Billie Holiday, libro Lady Sings the Blues

Origine: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 22.

„If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you can’t play nothing or sing nothing.“

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— Billie Holiday, libro Lady Sings the Blues

Origine: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 23.

„Holiday varied the lyrics of this and other songs in her renditions of them; included are some of the major passages of some of the variants.“

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— Billie Holiday

Billie's Blues