Garland Quotes

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage. (Lorna Luft)
Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice. View quote
Sarah Vaughan
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. View quote
John Milton
All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland. View quote
John Heywood
I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist. View quote
Donald Fagen
Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous. View quote
Judy Davis
I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis, Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made it all his own. View quote
Kenny Ortega
The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. View quote
Lorna Luft
When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody. View quote
Lorna Luft
My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend. View quote
Lorna Luft
I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?' (Mario Cantone)
See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys. View quote
Mel Torme
I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course. View quote
Tammy Blanchard
Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times. View quote
Willard Scott
Here's the lily, here the rose Her full chalice shall disclose; Here's narcissus wet with dew, Windflower and the violet blue. Wear the garland I have made; Crowned with it, put pride away; For the wreath that blooms must fade; Thou thyself must fade some day, Rhodocleia. View quote
Maurice Baring
You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. View quote
Yann Martel
Liza Minelli said she can't sing well enough those "special songs" of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd "rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama." View quote
Liza Minnelli
This was the heyday of the movies; it was hard to keep a level head and one's sense of values. MGM made over-worked, spoiled idols out of Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Elizabeth Taylor; it wasn't the kids' fault, nor the studio's, it was the System. I too was on the spoiling list for a while, but I didn't go along with it. View quote
Lucille Ball
Suddenly I saw the red blood trickle down from under the Garland hot and freshly and right plenteously, as it were in the time of His Passion when the Garland of thorns was pressed on His blessed head who was both God and Man, the same that suffered thus for me. I conceived truly and mightily that it was Himself shewed it me, without any mean. And in the same Shewing suddenly the Trinity fulfilled my heart most of joy. And so I understood it shall be in heaven without end to all that shall come there. For the Trinity is God: God is the Trinity; the Trinity is our Maker and Keeper, the Trinity is our everlasting love and everlasting joy and bliss, by our Lord Jesus Christ. And this was shewed in the First and in all: for where Jesus appeareth, the blessed Trinity is understood, as to my sight. View quote
Julian of Norwich
Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears; The garland she hath culled, I wear On brows bald since my thirty years. Ye veils that deck my loved one rare, Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh. Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! And I, so plain a man am I! (Pierre-Jean de Béranger)
The heart does not talk, it is the intellect that does all the talking. All dealings are at the intellectual level. We have become like machines; our very lives have become mechanical. Life has lost its naturalness - like a garland of plastic flowers. There is no heart in life anymore. Only when hearts come together does true life blossom. View quote
Mata Amritanandamayi
O, wither'd is the garland of the war! The soldier's pole is fall'n; young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon. View quote
Cleopatra VII
One who is blind throws away even a garland of flower placed on his head, thinking it is a snake. View quote
Kālidāsa
The national dress of Great Britain is, from the ground up, a pair of Roman sandals, a kilt, a gunbelt, a t-shirt bearing the likeness of Mr. T, a garland of flowers and a horned Viking helmet. (How to be British) View quote
Ben Croshaw