I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.