A biography for Tiny Timhasn’t been written yet.
“America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.”
“Whenever I sang, I said to myself, 'Maybe tonight.' I would never let down, no matter how few people were listening.”
“Better to marry unhappily 100 times than to live happily forever in sin.”
“The devil reigns in me more than in any man I can think of.”
“Some of the best things in life cost just $2.”
“I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star.”
“One day in 1952, I woke up with a high voice.”
“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.”
“The only thing I think of is the next hit record.”
“Night after night in the '50s, I traveled all over New York City. The promoter had 10 acts, and the winner each night would get five dollars; second place would get three dollars, and third place would get two dollars. He always put the best acts on last so the people wouldn't walk out, and the worst acts went on first. He always put me on first.”
“In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.”
“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.”
“Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.”
“Boy George was only 7 years old when I was hot in '68.”
“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.”
“I love the past. I read about the past all the time.”
“I was in Australia in 1983 and did a stunt in a lion's cage.”
“When a person attacks, it's rough.”
“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.'”
“I want to get a hit record, and I know I can be good in horror movies.”