Top 63 Quotes About Cole Porter: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Cole Porter

#1. I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

#2. Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.

Douglas Carter Beane

#3. 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

#4. [Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

Ethel Merman

#5. Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

Ethel Merman

#6. 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, or between major and minor.

Paul Zollo

#7. I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.

J. D. Souther

#8. A fat man with a Nazi party pin in his lapel played Cole Porter on a white piano.

Alan Furst

#9. Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.

Ethel Merman

#10. 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,

#11. He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

Arthur Balfour

#12. 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 Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein ... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.

Mike Stoller

#13. I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Kevin Kline

#14. 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 Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.

Gene Kelly

#15. For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To Watch Over Me.' Or Larry Hart and Richard Rodgers. Or some of the great Cole Porter songs, whether it's 'Night and Day' or some of the comedy songs. Or Irving Berlin, of course.

Maury Yeston

#16. I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or 'Sherry,' I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

Frankie Valli

#17. 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 parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

Marianne Faithfull

#18. With apologies to Judy Garland and Cole Porter, all the world does NOT love a clown. John Wayne Gacy might have been the final nail in the coffin in terms of anyone associating clowns with funny (if a bunch of clowns die, do they all fit into one coffin?)

Christopher Lombardo

#19. 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 the Hoagy Carmichaels, the Harold Arlens, Cole Porter.

Ahmet Ertegun

#20. 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 who were drawn to him.

Gene Tierney

#21. 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 even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

Cat Power

#22. 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 me.

Ethel Merman

#23. In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

Cole Porter

#24. Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do

Cole Porter

#25. Some Argentines, without means, do it, People say, in Boston , even beans do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love .

Cole Porter

#26. My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

Cole Porter

#27. I ask the Lord in Heaven above / What is this thing called Love?

Cole Porter

#28. Night and day, you are the one.

Cole Porter

#29. Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

Cole Porter

#30. Let's Do It; Let's Fall in Love.

Cole Porter

#31. If you ever feel so happy you land in jail, I'm your bail.

Cole Porter

#32. I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

Cole Porter

#33. Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see ... Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

Cole Porter

#34. Night and day you are the one,
Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.

Cole Porter

#35. Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control ...

Cole Porter

#36. Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .

Cole Porter

#37. Something that simply mystifies me.

Cole Porter

#38. This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.

Cole Porter

#39. A college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

Cole Porter

#40. I've got you deep in the heart of me.

Cole Porter

#41. I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in

Cole Porter

#42. You all have learned reliance
On the sacred teachings of Science,
So I hope, through life, you will never decline
In spite of philistine Defiance
To do what all good scientists do.
Experiment.
Make it your motto day and night.
Experiment.
And it will lead you to the light.

Cole Porter

#43. Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

Cole Porter

#44. Nobody wants to phone me,
Even collect.

Cole Porter

#45. There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

Cole Porter

#46. I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

Cole Porter

#47. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't.

Cole Porter

#48. Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now,
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.

Cole Porter

#49. The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Cole Porter

#50. It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.

Cole Porter

#51. The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Cole Porter

#52. What moments divine , what rapture serene.

Cole Porter

#53. Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.

Cole Porter

#54. All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.

Cole Porter

#55. I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.

Cole Porter

#56. Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose ... anything goes.

Cole Porter

#57. Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in

Cole Porter