Musician Quotes

Whenever I sing, I try to make it different, the sound that you've never heard before, and put something new, which people love.
Wherever I go, people behave like a very big superstar has entered, and I am never able to believe that they all are talking about me.
You should know that you need talent, passion, and luck to be a singer.
'Love Will Keep Us Together' was a combination of three different singing styles - Al Green, the Beach Boys, and Diana Ross. I loved all these people, and I put their singing styles together and wrote that tune.
America has a tendency to chip away at you if you've been a success for a long time, whereas in Europe, they put you on a pedestal.
Andy Warhol was a good friend of mine. We used to go to the Studio 54 nightclub together with the likes of Liza Minnelli, and we'd dance through the night.
As far as I'm concerned, all politicians are fake people.
Being a New Yorker, I used to dance to Latin music. There was a place called the Palladium on Broadway. And Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez used to play. So I still have that in my blood.
Between 1958 and 1963, I sold about 40 million records - to the shock of my mother and father because I was always playing Beethoven. But I bought my mother a mink stole. She was very happy, and she said, 'I think this is better than Beethoven.'
Between 1963 and 1975, I worked very little. The Beatles had come to New York and changed music - all the solo singers were out of work.
Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely a fantasy world. Having a close family has been a stabilizing rock for me.
Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.
I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.
I admire Gaga. She's very talented and wise, that girl.
I am a Jew, and I'm convinced that Israel is the homeland.
I am very proud of being Jewish.
I could have been bigger, but I wasn't controversial enough. I didn't do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.
I did have my beginnings in doo-wop music; I had a group called the Tokens in Brooklyn. They went on, of course, to do 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' and a lot of other great things. I went on as a soloist. But I still love doo-wop music.
I didn't want to be a rock and roller. I wanted to be a Bobby Darin because he was the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated.
I had talent, and I was hungry for fame, and you can't say I didn't get it.
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