Bing Crosby

“Frank Sinatra is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in my lifetime?”

“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.”

“There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.”

“My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.”

“He was an average guy who could carry a tune.”

“I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made great strides in reverse.”

“A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.”

“I owe my success to the fact that I'm a good listener.”

“The only thing you can do with a golf course is ruin it.”

“You can't be a success in this business without being a good listener.”

“I just sing the way I feel.”

“I owe everything to the public and to the radio.”

“An ulcer is an unkissed imagination taking its revenge for having been jilted. It is the result of an emotional starvation.”

“Every singer has a certain sound he makes just by opening his mouth and singing.”

“What is the use of straining after an originality which every other man is straining after?”