Tiny Tim Quotes

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Tiny Tim

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 12, 1932

I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.

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I'm a very difficult person to live with.

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I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning.

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As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.

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At the start of the '50s, I had short hair. And I was getting nowhere.

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The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.

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I saw 'Cynthia' five times.

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Better to marry unhappily 100 times than to live happily forever in sin.

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Some of the best things in life cost just $2.

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I keep recording and recording, but they always stay on the rack and never get out there.

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My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own.

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I love the past. I read about the past all the time.

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It was not easy to go into a subway in 1955 at eight o'clock in the morning smelling nice and hanging on the rails with white make-up. I could see people nudging each other saying, 'What is that?'

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I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

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We hear about the Gershwins, the Kerns, and the Berlins, but there were some great little writers like Theodore Morse, Charles K. Harris, and Ernest R. Ball, who wrote 'Let the Rest of the World Go By.'

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I don't know why, but I felt as if I was always behind the eight ball, so to speak.

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They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things.

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You sing fast and hope to get out.

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I was in Australia in 1983 and did a stunt in a lion's cage.

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We've all got setbacks.

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