Zitat des Tages von Tiny Tim:
I'm a very difficult person to live with.
In this business, you gotta hustle.
I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.
I don't believe in Women's Liberation. No, no, no, no, no. Not at all.
If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.
I love the past. I read about the past all the time.
We've all got setbacks.
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?'
Some of the best things in life cost just $2.
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.
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.'
My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own.
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.
If the cap ain't on my Crest, if it's squeezed from the middle and not the bottom, there's a problem.
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 am ready for anything that happens.
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 remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.
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.
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.
I don't know why, but I felt as if I was always behind the eight ball, so to speak.
I don't want people to think lm hypocritical.
As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.
I think they should give me a spot on 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty' or one of those shows.
I want to get a hit record, and I know I can be good in horror movies.
Whenever I sang, I said to myself, 'Maybe tonight.' I would never let down, no matter how few people were listening.
As long as you're recording and they pay the fee, it's like a lottery ticket. You never stop trying.
The devil reigns in me more than in any man I can think of.
I knew that someday I would be discovered.
