Margaret Whiting famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.
-- Margaret Whiting

#Friendship #Uncles #Father
So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
-- Margaret Whiting

#Teacher #Teaching #School
I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.
-- Margaret Whiting

#Years #Needed #Stills
Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was.
-- Margaret Whiting

#Stars #People #Singing
The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.
-- Margaret Whiting

#Musician #Looks #Way
The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.
-- Margaret Whiting

#Believe #People #Sound
That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.
-- Margaret Whiting

#Song #Growing Up #Challenges
[On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella.
-- Margaret Whiting

#Dull #Excitement #Umbrella

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.
You know how everybody has that one weird creepy uncle? Well, Seth Green looks like he got raped by all of them.
Spiritual master is representative of God. Similarly, king is also representative of God. The father is also representative of God. These are the statements of the sastras. Because they will guide. The king will guide. The spiritual master will guide. The father will guide. What is that guidance? That guidance is how one can become Krishna Conscious by education, by culture.
I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.

Margaret Whiting famous quotes

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