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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
Popular
"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."
Father
"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."
Feelings
"I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old."
First
"How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen."
Time
"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."
People
"I want to sing for the broadest possible audience."
Want
"My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer."
Baby
"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."
Actor
"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."
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"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it."
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"The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers."
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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
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"Everything popular is wrong."
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"I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular."
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"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."
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"I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie."
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"I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me."
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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something."
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"I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means."
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