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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."
"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."
Explore more quotes by Billie Holiday
"In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you."
"People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it."
"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."
"Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three."
"Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck."
"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."
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