“I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. By smiling, I think I’ve made more friends than if I was the other way.”
“Coming through the years, and finding that I not only have just the fans of my day, but the young ones of today — that’s what it means, it means it was worth all of it.”
“Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It’s no big secret. It’s the way I feel.”
“What’s the sense of going home and just sitting down and doing nothing?”
“Oh, I have gobs and gobs of ideas, but… well, you dream things like that, and that’s what these are, you know–my day dreams.”
“They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside… I’m going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.”
“The only thing better than singing is more singing.”
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
“I don’t want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.”
“It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that counts.”
“I have been rich, and I have been poor. Believe me baby, rich is better!”
“I never was cut out to step and strut out. Give me the simple life.”
“Sometimes people will say something you don’t like, and you get angry a bit, but you just smile. You let it go by, even if you really would like to choke ’em.”
“Now we’re not afraid when storm clouds gather ‘Cause we got the kind of love that’ll see us through.”
“What everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved.” “I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.”
