Jo Stafford Quotes

Jo Stafford — American Musician born on November 12, 1917, died on July 16, 2008

Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, the record becoming the first by a female artist to reach number one on the U.K. Singles Chart... (wikipedia)

The world is a pile of grunge.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

Jo Stafford Quotes

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