"The songwriters whom we think of being the……" — Ahmet Ertegun
"The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and the Hoagy Carmichaels, the Harold Arlens, Cole Porter."
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Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny…
— Justin Bieber
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As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean…
— Mel Brooks
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My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to…
— Tori Amos
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Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.
— Alex Ferguson
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Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords…
— Paul Zollo
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole…
— Ethel Merman
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Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist
— Ethel Merman
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Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me
— Ethel Merman
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When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a…
— Ray Charles
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I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of…
— Diahann Carroll
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This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the…
— Judith Thurman
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I want to date Cheryl Cole. She is a looker, she's the one. I love her accent, its so sexy.…
— Chace Crawford
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