If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

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

We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.

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

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.

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