Michael Bolton Quotes
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The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you
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The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to
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For years I've kept a list of dream projects.
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As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.
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I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.
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Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.
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A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
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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.
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Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song
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Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.
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You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.
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A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.
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To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing
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You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.
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Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.
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Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.
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One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist
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With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD
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It's an important thing to remember where you came from.
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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.
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On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.
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Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.
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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.
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The more complicated the movie, the more complex the budget, the more lonely it gets. There's a point where ... who do you go to, other than prayer and friends?
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It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak
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We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit
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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.
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I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.
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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.
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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.
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