Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me

“No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.”

— Ernest Hemingway

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

— Ethel Merman

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows…

— Ethel Merman

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist

— Ethel Merman

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

— Mel Brooks

I fell in love with the idea of writing songs when I was a child. I thought I was going to be a journalist…

— Leslie Bricusse

Ultimately, Cole Porter's music might say more about his life than any biography could. His songs, with their witty lyrics and debonair style, are…

— Stephen McCauley

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

— Mel Brooks

Sometimes when I'm writing I'll play Cole Porter, just because the rhythms and the lyrics are so perfect that it's like having a smart…

— Nancy Meyers

I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great…

— John Oates

I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and…

— Woody Allen

I do have that secret desire to be a cabaret star and just sing Cole Porter medleys.

— Cole Escola

With someone like Cole Porter, Perry Como, Louis Armstrong, or Bessie Smith, you had people who understood emotion, could translate it into a melodic…

— Melody Gardot

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up…

— Arthur Balfour

The music changed. We had Irving Berlin and Gershwin and Lerner and Loewe and Cole Porter. Great music. Now we have 'Rent.'

— Cyd Charisse