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" 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.' "

Tiny Tim

Ball

Rest

World

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Only

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Care

" I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star. "

" 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. "

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Think

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" If you go back to the minors, you have to start swinging and hitting the ball again. I've been in the minors since the '70s semipros, let's put it that way. "

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Back

Start

" I am ready for anything that happens. "

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" 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. "

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

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Pitcher

Either

" 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. "

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

" I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning. "

" I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones. "

" I always wanted to be a big star. "

" I read in one of the scandal sheets that there are UFO aliens living right now down deep in the Antarctic. I believe those things. "

" I don't want people to think lm hypocritical. "

" The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China. "

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

" It was not easy to go into a subway in 1955 at eight o'clock in the morning smelling nice and hanging on the rails with white make-up. I could see people nudging each other saying, 'What is that?' "