Cole Porter Quotes

16 quotes by 11 authors

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
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she… — Tori Amos
Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys,… — Paul Zollo
I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for… — Ethel Merman
Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist — Ethel Merman
Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me — Ethel Merman
I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter. — Julie Harris
I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people… — Gene Tierney
I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my… — Marianne Faithfull
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and… — Cat Power
I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and… — Gene Kelly
We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving… — Mike Stoller
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… — Ahmet Ertegun

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