Jo Stafford Quotes

• You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.

  Jo Stafford

• When rock came in, I wasn’t bitter about it. I was puzzled.

  Jo Stafford

• Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

  Jo Stafford

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

  Jo Stafford

• The world is a pile of grunge.

  Jo Stafford

• Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

  Jo Stafford

• Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

  Jo Stafford

• I’ve got a computer, but I won’t go near it.

  Jo Stafford

• I’ll probably never put out another album because I’m a tough critic of my work, and I don’t think I could come up to those standards any more.

  Jo Stafford

• I wasn’t driven. I just really loved what I did.

  Jo Stafford

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

  Jo Stafford

• 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

• I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

  Jo Stafford

Jo Stafford (13)

Birth:	12th November, 1917
Death:	16th July, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Singer

About

Jo Elizabeth Stafford was born in Coalinga, California, USA. She was an American traditional pop music singer. 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. In 1961, the album Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris won Stafford her only Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. Her albums list shown below: Autumn in New York, Songs of Faith, Garden of Prayer, Songs of Scotland, Happy Holiday, Once Over Lightly, Music of My Life, Peace in the Valley (with Gordon MacRae), and The Joyful Season. Her singles list shown below: "No Other Love" and "Make Love to Me".

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