Cole Porter Quotes

“We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".”
― Malcolm X

“Be a clown, be a clown
All the world loves a clown
Show ‘em tricks, tell ‘em jokes
And you’ll only stop with top folks.”
― Cole Porter, The Cole Porter Song Book: The Complete Words and Music of Forty of Cole Porter's Best-Loved Songs

“Life tells you how to live it, if you live long enough.”
― De-Lovely

“I start with the title first. From this title I work out the psychology of the tune. Next I write the lyric backward, and in this way build it up to a climax. In the lyric I work first for the climax, and if I can’t find a good climactic line I throw out the tune . . . I consult rhyme dictionaries. I swear by them. For long, easy rhymes I use Andrew Loring’s Lexicon. Other books I have in constant use are Roget’s ‘Thesaurus,’ and atlas, Fowler’s ‘Modern English Usage’ and a dictionary”
― Cole Porter, The Letters of Cole Porter