Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

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.

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

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