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I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

I think you'll find, when you're married, that it isn't nearly so important for you to be interesting as it is to make your husband feel that he's interesting.

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.

people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.