[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.

My golf is woeful, but I will never surrender

There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

I'm proud to acknowledge my debt to the 'Reverend Satchelmouth' ... He is the beginning and the end of music in America