Frases de Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Data de nascimento: 7. Abril 1915
Data de falecimento: 17. Julho 1959
Eleanora Fagan Gough , conhecida pelo nome artístico Billie Holiday ou Lady Day, foi uma cantora e compositora estadunidense de jazz. Ela é considerada a maior de todas as cantoras do jazz.
Citações Billie Holiday
„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.“
— Billie Holiday, livro 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.
Fonte: Lady Sings the Blues
„Them that's got shall get
Them that's not shall lose“
God Bless The Child
Contexto: 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 be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.“
— Billie Holiday, livro Lady Sings the Blues
Fonte: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 11.
„Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.“
"Strange Fruit" (1939). Though Holiday's renditions made this anti-lynching song famous, it was written by Abel Meeropol (using his pseudonym "Lewis Allen").
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