So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids ab…

- Margaret Whiting

[On the premiere of a dull show:] I've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella.

- Margaret Whiting

Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones…

- Margaret Whiting

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

- Margaret Whiting

Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was.

- Margaret Whiting

The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

- Margaret Whiting

The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.

- Margaret Whiting

That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would …

- Margaret Whiting