You'll find all sorts of showmen trying to get you to change your style of delivery. Don't listen to them, Frank. The public is the only barometer and registers its votes at the only polling place for entertainers, the box office. This is not to say that every song you sing should be sent out in the same way. Variety, I believe, is the biggest professional life preserver.
People get tired of too much sunshine and flowers and steaks and all the other good things of life.
That's because they're always the same. Mix 'em up, kid, send those songs out sweet and hot, slow and fast, funny and sad. That's the way I've managed to last this long, that and a lot of luck. You hear some talk around Hollywood about me carrying my brothers, who run my business and financial affairs. The truth is that they've helped to carry me.