But you're getting warm - the two of them could be said to be contemporaries, as I believe they were at the height of their popularity at (more or less) the same time.
Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"