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"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."
"It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last."
"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."
"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."
"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."
"I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own."
Explore more quotes by Mel Torme
"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
"Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money."
"So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer."
"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film."
"I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be."
"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."
"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
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