I learn my songs by ear.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer.

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

Can't really despise people you don't know.

If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

Success through the eyes of one once defeated, is true VICTORY.

I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.

I think a lot of people are capitalizing, perhaps exploiting, what was done via me, my family, my administration.

God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.

Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.