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Jo Stafford

"Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it."

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"Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost."

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"Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy."

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"I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet."

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"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."

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"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."

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"It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill."

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"Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off."

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"Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood."

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"One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight."

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"I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81."

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"I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy."
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"I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing."
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"Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing."
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"I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more."
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"There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming."
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"I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers."
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"You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique."
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"The world is a pile of grunge."
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"Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer."
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"I've got a computer, but I won't go near it."
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