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

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.

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

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

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.

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

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