Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. He just let them sing whatever they wanted, and it became the best record company in America.
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Related Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that ... TONY BENNETT I listen to Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Nat Cole, John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles.... JAMES DARREN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10... TONY BENNETT I believe it was Nat King Cole that my dad took me to see, and we were sitting in the dressing room,... JOHNNY MATHIS My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did. AARON NEVILLE My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he we... TORI AMOS I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for ... AARON NEVILLE I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profou... DIAHANN CARROLL You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entert... EDDIE MONEY We were working... with Frank Sinatra. He was in the main room, and we were in the lounge. It was a ... BOBBY HATFIELD When Sinatra said, 'For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer I've ever heard,' it c... TONY BENNETT Nat King Cole was a really big influence. BRYAN WHITE The one who really captured me and became my absolute favorite was Nat King Cole. He was a genius at... JOHNNY MATHIS When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while ... RAY CHARLES Dean Martin. He was incredible. GLEN CAMPBELL When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he... RED BUTTONS Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singi... BRUCE FORSYTH Think Sinatra and Dean Martin and Hollywood starlets throwing down chips in Art Deco casinos like th... JAMES CAMPIGLIA Think Sinatra and Dean Martin and Hollywood starlets throwing down chips in Art Deco casinos like th... JAMES CAMPIGLIA I always liked Nat King Cole. I always wanted to go my own way, but I always favoured other singers ... BILLY PAUL Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction. CHUCK BERRY Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age ... ROBERT GOTTLIEB My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat ... MOSE ALLISON For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He mo... FRANK SINATRA Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I woul... MARGARET WHITING Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like... WILLIAM BELL He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you. MEGAN WHALEN TURNER My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends w... MICHAEL DOUGLAS Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly. AARON NEVILLE Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the lo... TONI MORRISON So what do you do if you are imprisoned for your race and ethnicity? The message is, Those are your ... SUN YUNG SHIN We were in a bad spot and started panicking, ... That's when we called Johnny in California and he s... DAVID ZIEGLER The inaugural of Ronald Reagan, with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. And that was the greatest thing.... DON RICKLES When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... DAVID CROSBY Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like... ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE 'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just s... HARRY CONNICK, JR. I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved ... IMELDA MAY I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat Ki... NATALIE COLE When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - wer... DAVID CROSBY Martin was really wrestling well and just started winning. He wrestled smart, and he had some nice t... GLEN WHITE Are you still on Minnesota time?” I asked. “I am on whatever time makes this call last long... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help. MAGGIE STIEFVATER I asked,”Are you going to pick up next time I call you?” ”I did this time didn’t I?”<... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Why did you even come here, Cole?” I touched her chin. This place, this beautiful place, this... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I called Grace right before I went into the diner. Actually, I called Sam, but Grace answered his ph... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Wait —” Sam said. “Have you seen Isabel yet?” My fingers still felt the shape of her. �... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Tony Bennett and me are all the same... and he's still singing. I don't know what else to do... JOHNNY MATHIS This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a... WERLEY NORTREUS I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to ... LEAH LABELLE Dean came and met him, and he started doing different things, and Pluto started responding. He was t... CHRISTINE MARTIN I pressed PLAY and started up Chiron's favorite--the All-Time Greatest Hits of Dean Martin. Suddenly... RICK RIORDAN It's 6-2, we have second and third, no out. He made pitches when he had to. When they got men on bas... DENNY MCKERNAN Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great sing... PETER GALLAGHER That's exactly how he got to Capitol Hill. He listened and he watched, he studied, he absorbed. Bill... LEE WILLIAMS He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi... JOHN GREEN I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. LAUREN BACALL I first started doing hidden-camera segments on 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.' He was the... MICHAEL CARBONARO There are a lot of actors who try to get records made and try to make record deals, and everybody go... JOHN MELLENCAMP It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against... CORNEL WEST Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others. CARLOS WALLACE We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who... BOB LILLY I had wanted to sing a song with Lee Ann for a while, ... I think she's a great singer, and she alwa... GEORGE STRAIT Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in Americ... BARNEY FRANK When you let a team play that well in your gym this can happen. We didn't think Platteville would co... BOB SEMLING That was Johnny Cash. He was a complete person. He acknowledged the darker side of his mind. He didn... JOAQUIN PHOENIX Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America... JIM BROWN My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really... GRACE JONES I want to look happily forward. I want to be optimistic. I want to have a dream. I want to live in j... EDWIDGE DANTICAT He truly loved this place; he just wanted to do his best and he knew he would fit (in). HUGH MUSCAT My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King... GLORIA ESTEFAN Andrew Cole is head and shoulders our best. He should be in the hunt to win the conference champions... MICHAEL LITZINGER It clearly affected his performance in Athens and we just wanted to make sure he has the best chance... DAVE CURRIE I still have a crush on Johnny Depp, and I literally only started dating my husband because he looke... ELIZA COUPE When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing bett... JOE MANTEGNA It's not the fact that some people disagree with the protests. That is as much a right as the protes... CARLOS WALLACE Let God create in you His masterpiece. He will make you truly different and joyfully weird. CRAIG GROESCHEL Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely ident... TERRY TEACHOUT Dean Martin's albums for Capitol are among the most timeless vocal pop ever recorded. He was a great... GORDON ANDERSON Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. GEORGE ORWELL He exhibited tremendous intelligence. And he liked to mess around with his opponents on the track. H... LAURA HILLENBRAND I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear ... ANDRE BRAUGHER My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so ab... JOHNNY MATHIS There were times when he started looking a little frailer, but mentally he never became frail. Menta... MARK DYER To me, it is just freedom for my race and just overall cultural freedom for everyone and liberty. Ma... JAMES WARD He recently told me he felt he had completed the (organization plan) and wanted at some soon point t... BARRY DILLER Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equalit... ADRIAN CRONAUER Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about. JACK SCHWARTZ Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON There is no truth whatever in these allegations. Ashley Cole will not tolerate this kind of cowardly... GRAHAM SHEAR They could have not brought in Tony Harwood or Belinda to the stand and we still could have made the... DEBRA KLAYMAN He did not draw me into the movement, but he was in it from the start. He and I had met at my twenty... JOSEPH HANSEN He embodied the hubris that so marked the last turn of the century when America believed it could do... ERIK LARSON Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in... ROBERT KENNEDY They could have not brought Tony or Belinda to the stand and made the (case) without them. DEBRA KLAYMAN Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one... GERALDINE BROOKS I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I... AARON LAZAR
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ARNOLD BENNETT Confusing the words wish , faith and pray with each other usually just results i... BO BENNETT I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In... ALAN BENNETT Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. ARNOLD BENNETT Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ARNOLD BENNETT The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valua... BO BENNETT It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparin... BO BENNETT Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows... ARNOLD BENNETT It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a... ARNOLD BENNETT The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods ... ARNOLD BENNETT We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's var... ARNOLD BENNETT A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin... ARNOLD BENNETT Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. ARNOLD BENNETT Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Al... ARNOLD BENNETT The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world... ARNOLD BENNETT If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv... ARNOLD BENNETT It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. ARNOLD BENNETT All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. ARNOLD BENNETT Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The g... ARNOLD BENNETT Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret func... ARNOLD BENNETT The price of Justice is eternal publicity. ARNOLD BENNETT It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a... ARNOLD BENNETT Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk ... ALAN BENNETT Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. ARNOLD BENNETT Avoiding the phrase BO BENNETT A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. BO BENNETT Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ALAN BENNETT There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam... ARNOLD BENNETT While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happines... BO BENNETT To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper... ARNOLD BENNETT It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. ARNOLD BENNETT The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. JESSE BENNETT