The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.

The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.

For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.

For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.

Way down among Brazilians. Coffee beans grow by the billions. So they've got to find those extra cups to fill. They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil

If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.