If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

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

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

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

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.

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

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.