It's too bad that there aren't as many light comedies around in the movies as there were when I was making pictures like 'The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.' The boys are just not writing them. Many writers are more serious… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
As for radio and movies, I like the movies better, although the work is much harder. The cinema has microphone technique, staging, and glamour all wrapped up into one. — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
We of the soft-crooning radio type of singer are giving the people what they want. The American public as a whole does not care… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop a philosophy early in life which permits them to have as much pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction now as is possible without injuring themselves or others. Money can help to do this, but it is not and must not… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share
I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
I always felt that I would become somebody outstanding, whether it was in singing, instrumental playing, orchestra conducting, or anything involving feeling. — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious.… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men who'd had… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
The sweetest things in life to you were just loaned, so how can you lose what you've never owned. — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
It's too bad that there aren't as many light comedies around in the movies as there were when I was making pictures like 'The… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
As for radio and movies, I like the movies better, although the work is much harder. The cinema has microphone technique, staging, and glamour… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
