# Quote — Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues

> If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you’re out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you’re crazy. It can fix you so you can’t play nothing or sing nothing.

- Author: [Billie Holiday](https://www.leafyquotes.com/billie-holiday.md)
- Book: [Lady Sings the Blues](https://www.leafyquotes.com/billie-holiday/lady-sings-the-blues.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday#Lady_Sings_the_Blues_(1956)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/billie-holiday/lady-sings-the-blues/if-you-think

## More from this book

> 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. Everything I am and everything I want out of life goes smack back to that.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/billie-holiday/lady-sings-the-blues/youve-got-to-have.md)

> Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/billie-holiday/lady-sings-the-blues/somebody-once-said.md)

> I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/billie-holiday/lady-sings-the-blues/im-always-making.md)