I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.