Arthur Godfrey Sayings

#1. I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

Patsy Cline

#2. I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge in this country. I bought Godfrey's book "You Too Can Learn To Play Ukulele" and taught myself. It's a very romantic instrument. You can take it on a canoe.

Tiny Tim

#3. I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

Larry King

#4. The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too.

Rich Cohen

#5. All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

Henry Rollins

#6. She's a twosome, she's a foursome, if she'd lose some, I would like her more some.

Arthur Godfrey

#7. If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.

Arthur Godfrey

#8. I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.

Arthur Godfrey

#9. I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.

Arthur Godfrey

#10. He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear ... '

Arthur Godfrey

#11. You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.

Arthur Godfrey

#12. Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.

Chrys Fey

#13. You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'

Arthur Godfrey

#14. It's not an act, it's just my way.

Arthur Godfrey

#15. You finish a film not in the editing, but in the conversations that audiences have with themselves - and in that sense, every viewer is making a slightly different film. And that's wonderful.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#16. I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

Arthur Godfrey

#17. Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

Arthur Godfrey

#18. Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

Arthur Godfrey

#19. Home will always be here
Unseen, out of sight
Where I disappear and hide
I think dreamy things as I'm waving goodbye
So I'll spread out my wings and fly

Owl City

#20. Priests and politicians were equally bad, Allan thought, and it didn't make the slightest difference if they were communists, fascists, capitalists or any other political persuasion.

Jonas Jonasson

#21. It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor ... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

Jason Alexander

#22. I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.

Arthur Godfrey

#23. I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.

Arthur Godfrey

#24. You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

Arthur Godfrey

#25. As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.

Arthur Godfrey

#26. While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation

Arthur Godfrey

#27. The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.

Arthur Godfrey

#28. Not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that's why I talk so much.

Robert M. Pirsig

#29. Lo, I am with you alway, is enough for my soul to live upon, let who will forsake me.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#30. But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and consequently had no inkling of their crushing defeat.

Stanislaw Lem

#31. The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

Michael Ben Zehabe

#32. Looking back on my achievements, it is fair to say that I am extremely proud of what I have done and accomplished so far.

Arthur Godfrey

#33. I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.

Arthur Godfrey

#34. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events.

Diane Setterfield

#35. I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.

Arthur Godfrey