“My immediate answer was, 'I don't have a singing butler and three maids who sing, but I will tell you what I can as an assistant professor.”
Los Angeles Times (2004); on his response to Cukor's request to assist Rex Harrison to behave like a phonetician.
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“But in such a place as this, I can only tell you
by singing this song.”
A Song Is Born
Lyrics, I am...
“Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well;
I see you have a singing face.”
The Wild Goose Chase (c. 1621; published 1652), Act II. 2.
“When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.”
Interview, The New York Times, 1988
“I can't hear a word you're saying
Tell me what are you singing
In the sun”
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
On her domestic life with Valentino, p. 171
Madam Valentino: The Many Lives of Natacha Rambova (1991)
“I don't sing my mother tongue
No, this is not a love song”
"Amerika"
Reise, Reise (2004)
“And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.”
Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/84-jul30.htm with Bert Kleinman (30 July 1984). Cf. C. S. Lewis: "People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself."