I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

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.

You know, it's a long world.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

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