Quotes from Tiny Tim

When a person attacks, it's rough.

We've all got setbacks.

As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.

I don't believe in birth control.

Don't bury me with anyone old.

America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.

I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single.

I hope I dont give music a bad name.

I'm the type of person, I cannot waste time.

I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.

I'm like a pitcher. I'm either on or off.

If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.

I always bring my little ukelele along in my shopping bag which my dear, sweet father bought me. After all, you just never know when a song might come along.

If you go back to the minors, you have to start swinging and hitting the ball again. I've been in the minors since the '70s semipros, let's put it that way.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

Keep walking and keep smiling.

I saw 'Cynthia' five times.

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.

The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.

I always love the smell of a bat and a glove, or a hockey puck in the winter time.

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.

One day in 1952, I woke up with a high voice.

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.

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.'