Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Sonny Bono

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an American singer, actor, and politician who came to fame in partnership with his second wife Cher as the popular singing duo Sonny & Cher. He was mayor of Palm Springs, California, from 1988 to 1992, and the Republican congressman for California's 44th district, elected during the Republican Revolution and serving from 1995 until he died on a skiing trip in 1998.

American - Musician | February 16, 1935 - January 5, 1998

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People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

Sonny Bono

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.

Sonny Bono

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

Sonny Bono

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Sonny Bono

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

Sonny Bono

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

Sonny Bono

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

Sonny Bono

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

Sonny Bono

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

Sonny Bono

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

Sonny Bono

We'll have all the same players... We'll be missing one, actually.

Sonny Bono

People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.

Sonny Bono

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

Sonny Bono

Almost no one sings like Elvis Presley any more.

Sonny Bono

People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But I've got 10 gold records.

Sonny Bono

We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.

Sonny Bono

It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.

Sonny Bono

You've got to give someone like Cher a lot of credit. She's worked very hard to get where she is. I can't take that away from her.

Sonny Bono

Put your ego aside and play as a team.

Sonny Bono

No matter how revolutionary something is, if you keep doing it over and over and over then it does loses it's excitement and it's high dynamics and people get used to ... get used to it like anything else you know um and then it just becomes a normal deal and then it becomes not very interesting at all.

Sonny Bono

Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Sonny Bono

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