- [as recalled by trumpeter Buck Clayton in his 1986 memoir, Buck Clayton's Jazz World] To hell with Billie Holiday. Come on down and listen to me-the real Billie!
- [Reputed parting line which, thanks to the "magic" of director Frank Capra's name, was said to have brought about the immediate reversal of one producer's decision that Yarbo was not the right "type" for a particular role in his upcoming film. As reported by Louella Parsons in the spring of 1938.] Oh, well; I don't know whether I could do it anyway. Mr. Capra will probably be needin' me for two or three weeks more in You Can't Take It with You (1938).
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