"We in the show business have our religion too - on every day, the show must go on!"

"I came home with a heart full of love, but you don't want to understand. Some day you'll understand, the same as Mama…"

"My son was to stand at my side and sing tonight – but now I have no son."

"My son came to me in my dreams—he sang Kol Nidre so beautifully. If he would only sing like that tonight—surely he wo…"

"[Listening to Jakie cantoring at Yom Kippur services after the death of his father] A jazz singer...singing to his God!"

"There are lots of jazz singers, but you have a tear in your voice."

"Here he belongs. If God wanted him in His house, He would have kept him there. He's not my boy anymore—he belongs to …"

"What a little boy learns - he never forgets."

"See him---and hear him sing!"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet! Wait a minute, I tell ya! You ain't heard nothin'! You wan…"