Michael Bolton Quotes

Said I loved you but I lied, cause this is more than love I feel inside.

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.

You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.

Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

I accept that appearance is a big thing in this business. But being around Hollywood and having actor friends and doing music videos, it does make you more aware of how you look. With music videos they send you rough cuts, and in certain frames of me, I just see a nose advert.

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.

I like the simple 'I love your work' letters. You never get sick of people's appreciation. They think they're troubling you, but it's lovely people associate my songs with certain moments in their lives.

It's not quite the Tom Jones show, but yes, I've had undergarments. If I get a bra chucked on stage I'll hold it up so the audience can decide what to think. And I'll usually blame a guy for doing it.

There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

I still get butterflies. It's because there's a certain level of responsibility you carry when doing a concert. You've got to sound at least as good as the record.

With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.

When your car is about to go off a cliff, it's a weird time to be thinking about gas mileage and drag coefficients; better to take the right control action - look out the window and steer or use the brake until you're back on course.

You know, fans who think we were made for each other and describe it in excruciating detail. You get peculiar things and beautiful things. But either way they're clearly thinking about you, which is nice.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I'm pretty irreverent. There is a lot of need to find humour in life. Although I'd never be as disrespectful to laugh at someone's expense.

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

On singing in the swimming pool: If I can move the water, I can move the people.