Alcohol May Be Man's Worst Enemy, But

The Thing That Influenced Me Most Was The Way Tommy Played His Trombone. It Was My Idea To Make My Voice Work In The Same Way As A Trombone Or Violin-not Sounding Like Them, But "playing" The Voice Like Those Instrumentalists.

I Believe In You And Me. I'm Like Albert Schweitzer And Bertrand Russell And Albert Einstein In That I Have A Respect For Life -- In Any Form. I Believe In Nature, In The Birds, The Sea, The Sky, In Everything I Can See Or That There Is Real Evidence For. If These Things Are What You Mean By God, Then I Believe In God. But I Don't Believe In A Personal God To Whom I Look For Comfort Or For A Natural On The Next Roll Of The Dice.

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.

I'm Supposed To Have A Ph.d. On The Subject Of Women. But The Truth Is I've Flunked More Often Than Not. I'm Very Fond Of Women; I Admire Them. But, Like All Men, I Don't Understand Them.

Fear Is The Enemy Of Logic. There Is No More Debilitating, Crushing, Self-defeating, Sickening Thing In The World--to An Individual Or To A Nation.