Peggy Lee Quotes

#1. I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.

Merry Clayton

#2. In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.

Peter Ackroyd

#3. I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

Leonard Maltin

#4. Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

Carly Simon

#5. Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.

Mel Ferrer

#6. I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

Evan Rachel Wood

#7. In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people can feel it. Billie Holiday does it. Peggy Lee does it. It's very hot.

Elizabeth Berkley

#8. The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine all topped the charts in the '50s. Load a playlist of rock n' roll royalty. You're spoilt for choice.

Sara Sheridan

#9. There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

Rita Coolidge

#10. I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

Otis Blackwell

#11. I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

Peggy Lee

#12. I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

Peggy Lee

#13. Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

Michael Berryman

#14. People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.

Marjane Satrapi

#15. There was no circumcision. Lee said circumcision was dreamed up by moralists and lotion salesmen to make hand jobs chafe, and Peggy deferred to his better judgement.

Nell Zink

#16. I'm really into beaches, but I also enjoy a bit of culture. An ideal holiday would have a nice balance of the two, but I'm definitely not into adrenalin sports, nor would I enjoy spending a month solid on a beach.

Miranda Raison

#17. Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.

Lee Krasner

#18. A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous ...

John Calvin

#19. If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

Peggy Lee

#20. I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.

Peggy Lee

#21. You can't beat The Beatles, you join 'em.

Peggy Lee

#22. soon becomes clear that this is one killer.

Sidney Sheldon

#23. The thing that I always notice that dates a record is the rhythm section. With a good arranger the music can be timeless. But, rhythm can change, because heaven knows, we didn't know rock was going to come in, did we?

Peggy Lee

#24. Second-guessing a Red Sox manager is like bemoaning Cape Cod traffic - it's a time-honored summer ritual.

Anonymous

#25. Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafari.

Bob Marley

#26. Is That All There Is?

Peggy Lee

#27. I often say to entrepreneurs, 'If Lehman Brothers were Lehman Brothers & Sisters, it wouldn't have gone into bankruptcy.'

Shinzo Abe

#28. I try to project not only a song but a personality.

Peggy Lee

#29. PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Aristotle.

#30. Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

Bill Bradley

#31. You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.

Peggy Lee

#32. I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby.

Peggy Lee

#33. What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

Peggy Lee

#34. Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

Peggy Lee

#35. They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)

Peggy Lee