If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. Billie Holiday
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. Billie Holiday
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own. Billie Holiday
All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you. Billie Holiday