- [on his clients] If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. There's something in them - some warmth, some fire - that projects into an audience and makes it respond. Give me the temperamental artist every time.
- How much do you love this attraction or that personality? How much do you owe the American public? Those are the important things. The money you think about later.
- When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.
- An impresario is a man who discovers talent, who promotes it, who presents it, and who puts up the money and takes the risk. That's my main work, which is a lot different from a mere agent, a booker, a fellow who works strictly on percentage.
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