All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
Louis Armstrong
What is your fortune, my pretty maid? My face is my fortune, Sir, she said.
Nursery Rhyme
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.
Elvis Presley
Live every day like it's your last.
Frank Sinatra
The Apartment
Marilyn Monroe
If you feel like lovin' me
if you've got the notion
I second that emotion.
Smokey Robinson
I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
Peggy Cahn
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lena Horne
When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.
Dean Martin
If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.
Joan Sutherland
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.
Pearl Bailey
You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.
Theodore L Cuyler
Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?
George Gershwin
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
Quincy Jones
"You wait and you wait for somethin' big to happen... and then you find out you gon' die.
Queen Latifah
You have to erect a fence and say, Okay, scale this.
Linda Ronstadt
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.