A Quote by Ethel Merman

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

Ethel Merman

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Ethel Merman
American - Musician
January 16, 1908 - February 15, 1984

I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.

J. D. Souther

I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

Mel Brooks

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

Tori Amos

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist

Ethel Merman

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

Ethel Merman

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me

Ethel Merman

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

Ethel Merman

Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the best. Harold Arlen was just fantastic. Cole Porter was better than anybody, and Gershwin was Gershwin, y'know. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole.

Tony Bennett

I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin the Beguine,' that's one of my favorites.

Harry Dean Stanton

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

Julie Harris

To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.

Amor Towles

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

Mose Allison

Nobody is trying to avoid Shawn Porter. Look at all the named fighters that fought Shawn Porter, because nobody is avoiding Shawn Porter. Nobody is scared of Shawn Porter. Shawn Porter can beat you. He's tough, durable and comes to win but nobody's scared.