The Best Is Yet To Come And

You Can Be The Most Artistically Perfect Performer In The World, But An Audience Is Like A Broad - If You're Indifferent, Endsville.

Don't Respond To Negativity With More Negativity. Just Put Your Head Down And Prove Your Critics Wrong.

All Day Long, They Lie In The Sun, And When The Sun Goes Down, They Lie Some More.

(while Accepting The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've Been Thinking About Why You Have To Get Famous To Get An Award For Helping Other People...if Your Name Is John Doe, And You Work Night And Day Doing Things For Your Helpless Neighbors, What You Get For Your Effort Is Tired. So, Mr. And Mrs. Doe, And All Of You Who Give Of Yourselves, To Those Who Carry Too Big A Burden To Make It On Their Own, I Want You To Reach Out And Take Your Share Of This...because If I Have Earned It, So Too Have You.

My Greatest Teacher Was Not A Vocal Coach, Not The Work Of Other Singers, But The Way Tommy Dorsey Breathed And Phrased On The Trombone.