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• Jo Stafford:

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

• Jo Stafford:

  The world is a pile of grunge.

• Jo Stafford:

  I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

• Jo Stafford:

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

• Jo Stafford:

  Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

• Jo Stafford:

  Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

• Jo Stafford:

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

• Jo Stafford:

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

• Jo Stafford:

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

• Jo Stafford:

  I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of econom