Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Jo Stafford

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Jo Stafford.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop music singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart, and the first by a female artist to do so.

American - Musician | November 12, 1917 - July 16, 2008

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I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Jo Stafford

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

Jo Stafford

The world is a pile of grunge.

Jo Stafford

There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.

Jo Stafford

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

Jo Stafford

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

Jo Stafford

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

Jo Stafford

I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

Jo Stafford

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

Jo Stafford

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

Jo Stafford

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

Jo Stafford

When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

Jo Stafford

You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.

Jo Stafford

When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

Jo Stafford