Ethel Merman

“I never took a singing lesson. I was born with this voice.”

“Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to Broadway.”

“I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.”

“It's a good thing I was born a woman, or I'd have been a drag queen.”

“If you're going to be a singer, you've got to be a loud singer.”

“I just want to be remembered as a damn good entertainer.”

“I was never a glamour girl. I was a singer.”

“I wear my insides on my outside.”

“I'm the original, and everybody else is a copy.”

“I don't need a microphone. I can sing to the back row of the balcony.”

“I'm a survivor. I'm a tough old broad.”

“If you have a talent, you have an obligation to use it.”

“I never think about the past. I think about the future.”

“The best way to get a man to do something is to suggest that he's too old for it.”