I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

All songwriters are links in a chain.