Rosemary Clooney famous quotes

07-11-2025

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.
-- Rosemary Clooney

#Men #Weather #Funeral
So you see, you can't do everything alone.
-- Rosemary Clooney
I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.
-- Rosemary Clooney

#Able #Instruments
I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.
-- Rosemary Clooney

#Taken #Responsibility #Long
I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.
-- Rosemary Clooney

#People #Expectations #Rosemary
I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.
-- Rosemary Clooney

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Stuff
When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.
-- Rosemary Clooney

#Break Up #Girl #Team
I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.
-- Rosemary Clooney

#Night #Hands #Color
I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.
-- Rosemary Clooney

#Singing #Done #Stage

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.
I foresee a great funeral contest over me.
ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.
It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.
A eugoogoolizer...one who speaks at funerals...Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?

Rosemary Clooney famous quotes

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