I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
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I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.
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I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
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Millie And Billie
Billie I wonder why are we insane
Will we ever get better
Will we stay the same
Billie I'm worried
Millie don't worry
No one knows our pain
Being in love is crazy not alone that way
I know you're worried today
God made love crazy so he wouldn't feel alone
He was thinking of us he was thinking of us
God made love crazy so he wouldn't feel so alone
Billie my mind seems to wander
To events of a night long ago
Driving alone with our guilt well concealed
In the trunk of your '68 Olds
Millie our world's an asylum
And our minds like you say ain't that straight
But you know and I know our passion's
Not deformed it's true to say
We'll love our lifetime
God made love crazy so he wouldn't feel alone
He was thinking of us he was thinking of us
God made love crazy so he wouldn't feel so alone
Billie I dream of our children
They're frightening and gruesome and sad
And I don't want them growing inside me
They're no price for the love that we have
Oh Millie oh Billie criminally insane
Oh Millie oh Billie
Oh Billie it's fresh in my memory
The night that it had to be done
You with your pick axe and scissors
And you with your shovel and gun
And I liked your late husband Donald
But such torture his memory brings
All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies
Guess love makes you do funny things
Oh Millie oh Billie criminally insane
Oh Millie oh Billie
song performed by by Alice Cooper from From The Inside
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If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
quote by Billie Holiday
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I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
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The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today.
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.
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You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
quote by Billie Holiday
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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
quote by Billie Holiday
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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.
quote by Billie Holiday
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If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
quote by Billie Holiday
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I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
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Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
quote by Billie Holiday
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Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.
quote by Nichelle Nichols
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A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
quote by Billie Holiday
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One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
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Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
quote by Billie Holiday
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I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
quote by Billie Holiday
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