I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

My mother was an incredibly loving mother.

You have all the power you could possibly need to create a new reality - a reality of vibrant health and wellbeing.

People should get married at the end of the road, not the beginning.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you.

Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and out of your body is like trying to keep the wind out of the trees.

I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.