Billie Holiday citáty a výroky
Billie Holiday: Citáty v angličtine
“No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.”
Zdroj: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 4.
“I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.”
Zdroj: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 23.
“Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose”
God Bless The Child
Kontext: 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.
Varianta: 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.
Zdroj: Lady Sings the Blues
"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
“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
Kontext: 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.
“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.”
Zdroj: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 20.
“[I]t takes a bad woman to be a good godmother.”
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."”
Zdroj: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 22.