Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.
Quotes about porter (16 Quotes)
Oh, mister porter, what shall I do I wanted to go to Birmingham, but they've carried me on to Crewe.
But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.
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.
Porter has taken tens of thousands of dollars from indicted, convicted and corrupt politicians. He hopes to raise as much as a million more at a fundraiser with President Bush, Yucca Mountain's strongest advocate.
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.
It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.
I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
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.
I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
A really cool thing about the Babyface Songbook is this is the first time that Babyface as a songwriter has been elevated to this level, ... I dont pretend to be the one elevating him, but our treatment of him has that kind of integrity to it, that kind of dignity. In the pop world, you can be taken seriouslyor not. As a pop songwriter, you can be here today and gone tomorrow. Babyface and his music have withstood the test of time. This project is a tribute to a great songwriter in the traditions of Cole Porter, HollandDozier and Irving Berlin. They all had the ability, through a lyric or a note, to find the common ground that unites us all, to find that something that thousands and thousands of people can feel intimately and profoundly. That is power, and thats what these songs have. The music of Babyface goes straight to the heart.
Shuffle Off to Buffalo ... The honeymoon in store Is one that you'll adore I'm gonna take you for a ride I'll go home and pack my panties You go home and get your scanties And away we'll go Off we're gonna shuffle Shuffle Off to Buffalo To Niagara in a sleeper There's no honeymoon that's cheaper And the train goes slow Off we're gonna shuffle Shuffle Off to Buffalo... For a little silver quarter We can have the Pullman porter Turn the lights down low Off we're gonna shuffle Shuffle Off to Buffalo.
Macduff What three things does drink especially provoke Porter Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
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.