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" 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. "

Tiny Tim

Want

Song

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" Don't bury me with anyone old. "

Tiny Tim

Anyone

Old

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

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

" 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. "

Tiny Tim

Rock And Roll

Think

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

" I saw 'Cynthia' five times. "

" I don't believe in birth control. "

" Believe it or not, I'd love to go to the moon. "

Tiny Tim

Moon

Love

" I always wanted to be a big star. "

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

" There is nothing like youth. "

Tiny Tim

Nothing

Youth

" In this business, you're as good as your last hit record, and mine was more than 26 years ago. "

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

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

" I want to get a hit record, and I know I can be good in horror movies. "

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

" I knew that someday I would be discovered. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Tiny Tim

Back

Start

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

" You sing fast and hope to get out. "

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

Tiny Tim

Pitcher

Either

" In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story. "

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

" As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell. "

" I always bring my little ukelele along in my shopping bag which my dear, sweet father bought me. After all, you just never know when a song might come along. "

" I don't believe in Women's Liberation. No, no, no, no, no. Not at all. "

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