Billie Holiday Quotes

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances

There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that.

I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

I've never really been interested in recreational drug use.

I've been in the music business for 15 years. I've seen it all, man. I've just always been scared of coke. When I was on the road and saw some people do it, I was afraid I would really like it. I was afraid of the consequences.

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

Indians should not drink whiskey. It was not made for them, but for the white people who alone know how to use it. That is the cause of all the mischiefs which the Indians suffer.

I can tell you that the formula works, and works pretty well. You avoid criminals and violence, you refuse their mode of money that nourishes the cartels, and that is a great solution to the violence problem. In relation to the health problem, I have not ever heard of anybody dying from an overdose of marijuana.

I have strong views against substance usage and abuse. It's bad for kidney and central neuro system.

No one should do drugs thinking that they will make a great record. That's not the way to go, for sure.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.

Marijuana is a gateway drug that can lead to awful things, like Phish getting back together.

I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.

I've done 12 in one night, you know what I mean - loads of them... Really, in the long run, it's a safe pill and it ain't doing you no harm. I don't see the problem.

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don't smoke... tumors.

I think about my cocaine use. I liked it. I thought it was a great drug. But I knew that if I was doing that almost exclusively, I wouldn't be able to continue to also have significant others and a wide range of other things. And I wasn't special. A number of people, including the people I was doing cocaine with, also behaved the same way.

I won't do anything that is connected with drugs. I've seen drugs ruin so many people's lives. I don't think there's anything cute about drugs. And I don't believe in celebrating them.

There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I use drugs and alcohol and booze is because it's healthy!"