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"That's life (that's life), that's what all the people say You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May But I know I'm gonna change that tune When I'm back on top, back on top in June"
"I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing."
"What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can."
"Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people."
"Now there's a grown-up swinging town."
"Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me."
"(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this...Because if I have earned it, so too have you."
"Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth."
"The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth."
"Here's to the confusion of our enemies!"
"You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville."
"As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public."
"If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York."
"It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle soul. John and his colleagues set a high standard by which contemporary music continues to be measured."
"Should have a Ph.d. on the subject of women. Anyhow the fact of the matter is I've failed usually. I'm exceptionally enamored with women; I respect them. Yet, in the same way as all men, I don't comprehend them."
"If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard."
"I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps"
"That's life (that's life), I tell you I can't deny it I thought of quitting, baby, but my heart just ain't gonna buy it And if I didn't think it was worth one single try I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly"
"What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?"
"For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business."