Anything goes Quote by Ethel Merman

“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