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" I always love the smell of a bat and a glove, or a hockey puck in the winter time. "

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" The devil reigns in me more than in any man I can think of. "

" I always wanted to be a big star. "

" America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War. "

" You sing fast and hope to get out. "

" Some of the best things in life cost just $2. "

" If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs. "

" I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country. "

" Death is never polite, even when we expect it. "

" I don't know why, but I felt as if I was always behind the eight ball, so to speak. "

" When a person attacks, it's rough. "

" Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was. "

" We hear about the Gershwins, the Kerns, and the Berlins, but there were some great little writers like Theodore Morse, Charles K. Harris, and Ernest R. Ball, who wrote 'Let the Rest of the World Go By.' "

" One day in 1952, I woke up with a high voice. "

" I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio. "

" Night after night in the '50s, I traveled all over New York City. The promoter had 10 acts, and the winner each night would get five dollars; second place would get three dollars, and third place would get two dollars. He always put the best acts on last so the people wouldn't walk out, and the worst acts went on first. He always put me on first. "

" They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things. "

" Whenever I sang, I said to myself, 'Maybe tonight.' I would never let down, no matter how few people were listening. "

" I keep recording and recording, but they always stay on the rack and never get out there. "

" I hope I don't give music a bad name. "

" I think they should give me a spot on 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty' or one of those shows. "

" As long as you're recording and they pay the fee, it's like a lottery ticket. You never stop trying. "

" Don't bury me with anyone old. "

" Better to marry unhappily 100 times than to live happily forever in sin. "

" My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own. "

" When I first went on the 'Johnny Carson show', the band did not want me, and Carson did not want me. If the audience had not received 'Tiptoe' so overwhelmingly, I do not believe Carson would have let me come over to be on the panel after the song. "

" I'm a very difficult person to live with. "

" I love the past. I read about the past all the time. "

" We've all got setbacks. "

" I'm like a pitcher. I'm either on or off. "

" I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and popular music. It's just that the spirits of the singers whose songs I do are living within me. That's why the songs come out in the voices of the original singers. I'm not doing imitations. That's the way they sound inside me. "