I always bring my little ukelele along in my shopping bag which my dear, sweet father bought me. After all, you just never know when a song might come along.
I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones.
The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.
In this business, you're as good as your last hit record, and mine was more than 26 years ago.
It was not easy to go into a subway in 1955 at eight o'clock in the morning smelling nice and hanging on the rails with white make-up. I could see people nudging each other saying, 'What is that?'
I'm a very difficult person to live with.
There is nothing like youth.
I don't want people to think lm hypocritical.
I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning.
America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.
You sing fast and hope to get out.
I hope I don't give music a bad name.
They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things.
When a person attacks, it's rough.
Some of the best things in life cost just $2.
Better to marry unhappily 100 times than to live happily forever in sin.
I knew that someday I would be discovered.
Whenever I sang, I said to myself, 'Maybe tonight.' I would never let down, no matter how few people were listening.
The only thing I think of is the next hit record.
I love the past. I read about the past all the time.
