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....A simple I love you means more than money....

You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.

I'm gonna live till I die.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.

That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.

Fairy tales can come true
It can happen to you
If you're young at heart

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.

You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile.

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.

The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.

Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac ... It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.

Never yawn in front of a lady.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.

You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.

It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.

Cock your hats, angles are attitudes

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Don't hide your scars. They make you who you are

Regrets, I've had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.

I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

A friend is never an imposition.

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!

Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.

People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

Don't get even, get mad.

The best revenge is massive success.

The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way.

Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks
it says, Goodbye.

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.

Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

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 am a thing of beauty.

Look down - look down that lonesome road
Before you travel on

Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.

You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad
if you're indifferent, Endsville.

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

Start spreading the news, I am leaving today.
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.

What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?

The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me
that is Michael Jackson.

You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.

Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.

Dyin' is a pain in the ass.

The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Orange is the happiest color.

Who knows where the road will lead us
Only a fool would say,
But if you let me love you
I'm sure to love you all the way.

Ya gotta love livin', pally, cuz dyin's a pain in the ass!

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.

For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.

I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life ... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York.

If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.