Cole Porter Quotes

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

  Cole Porter

  Passion, Blue, Singing

  Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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

  Cole Porter

  Inspiration, Phones, Phone Calls

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

  Cole Porter

  Love, Fall, Bird

  "Let's Do It" (song) (1954). These words were added to the original 1928 song, replacing lines including "Chinks do it, Japs do it" because Porter realized that those lyrics were offensive.

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

  Cole Porter

  Funny, Change, Humorous

  "Anything Goes" (song) (1934)

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• 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

  Liberty, Lines, Remember

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

  Cole Porter

  Wedding, Moon, Night

  "Night and Day" (song) (1932)

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• 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

  Play, World Love, Laughing

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• He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

  Cole Porter

  Sister, Hair, May

  Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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

  Cole Porter

  Song, Writing, Berlin

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• I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?

  Cole Porter

  Wine, Alcohol, Thrill

  "I Get a Kick Out of You" (song) (1934)

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• 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

  Teaching, Learning, Science

  Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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

  Cole Porter

  Fun, Justice, Just One

  'Just One of Those Things' (1935 song)

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

  Cole Porter

  Heart

  "I've Got You Under My Skin" (song) (1936)

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• a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

  Cole Porter

  College, Clothes, Degrees

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• Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

  Cole Porter

  Like Love, Gentleman, Kicks

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• Now: heaven knows, anything goes.

  Cole Porter

  Freedom, Heaven, Anything Goes

  'Anything Goes' (1934 song)

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• In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.

  Cole Porter

  Night, White, Mad

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• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.

  Cole Porter

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

  Cole Porter

  Inspiration, Directors, Telephones

  1955 Interview, 8 Feb.

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

  Cole Porter

  Baby, Wrecks, Checks

  1936 'You're theTop', from the showAnything Goes.

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• 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

  Country, Land, Sky

  Song: Don't Fence Me In

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• 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

  Self, Track, Add

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• Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.

  Cole Porter

  Summer, Cheer, Fall

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• What moments divine , what rapture serene.

  Cole Porter

  Serenity, Moments, Divine

  Song: Begin the Beguine

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• Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

  Cole Porter

  Want, Affair, Millionaire

  1956 'WhoWants to Be aMillionaire', fromthe show High Society.

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