“I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I ...” — Rosemary Clooney Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“So you see, you can't do everything alone.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.”

“I'm trying to leave something that I can look back on with great satisfaction.”

“Everybody's got to work with Roger Corman. You can't leave out that experience.”

“You are what you leave behind.”

“Our message must be that we want to help and that we will leave once the problems have been solved.”

“I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.”

“There's a little mourning process when you leave a show.”