I have nothing but great admiration for this gentleman . . . who's been able to withstand a lot of the foils and stumbling blocks in politics as we know them.

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them

I have no one style.

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.