Jo Stafford Quotes

#1. Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.

Frances Moore Lappe

#2. I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Jo Stafford

#3. Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

Jo Stafford

#4. There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.

Jo Stafford

#5. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

Erin Morgenstern

#6. You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.

Jo Stafford

#7. In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs ... different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects

Albert Bandura

#8. When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

Jo Stafford

#9. Since it seems your marking your territory , why don't you go ahead and pee on her while you're at it ? " ~ Cal

Nicole Reed

#10. It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that prevents a slavish adherence to genetically programmed behavior in human beings more than in any other species.

Carl Sagan

#11. Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

Jo Stafford

#12. I suppose life is what you believe it to be. Perhaps believing in life is its true nature.

R.W. Erskine

#13. I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

Jo Stafford

#14. I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

Jo Stafford

#15. I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

Jo Stafford

#16. The world is a pile of grunge.

Jo Stafford

#17. I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

Jo Stafford

#18. I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

Jo Stafford

#19. Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

Jo Stafford