Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'