Tiny Tim

Musician

1932-04-12

Quotes by Tiny Tim

• I knew that someday I would be discovered.

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• If the cap ain't on my Crest, if it's squeezed from the middle and not the bottom, there's a problem.

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

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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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• 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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• When I first went on the 'Johnny Carson show', the band did not want me, and Carson did not want me. If the audience had not received 'Tiptoe' so overwhelmingly, I do not believe Carson would have let me come over to be on the panel after the song.

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• Believe it or not, I'd love to go to the moon.

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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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• I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and popular music. It's just that the spirits of the singers whose songs I do are living within me. That's why the songs come out in the voices of the original singers. I'm not doing imitations. That's the way they sound inside me.

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• There are a lot of ups and downs. But there are always people who have it worse.

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