Sonny Bono
Sonny Bono
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bonowas an American recording artist, producer, and politician who came to fame in partnership with his second wife Cher, as the popular singing duo Sonny & Cher. He was mayor of Palm Springs, California, from 1988 to 1992, and congressman for California's 44th district from 1995 until his death in 1998...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth16 February 1935
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.
You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
We'll have all the same players... We'll be missing one, actually.
I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.
If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.
People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.
No matter how revolutionary something is, if you keep doing it over and over and over then it does loses it's excitement and it's high dynamics and people get used to ... get used to it like anything else you know um and then it just becomes a normal deal and then it becomes not very interesting at all.
What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.
I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.
It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.
You've got to give someone like Cher a lot of credit. She's worked very hard to get where she is. I can't take that away from her.