Johnny Mathis Quotes
When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. Ive said it over and over again. I think it is boring.
And fortunately, I haven't had any problem with my voice. I've been able to sing at a level of consistency that the people are expecting.
My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.
In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if youre not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that? When did that happen?" Our brain doesn't accept that. We're geared to last.
But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.
I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.
When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.
When you're doing bad things, you just don't know whether you can conquer them or not. I found out how strong I could be when I was motivated, and I'm kind of proud of that.
Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.
Thank God for vinyl! It's wonderful to be involved in something that captures your life from almost the beginning to the end. I'm absolutely blessed.
It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.
I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.
Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.
Christmas is never going to go away, and it's always going to be there. And there's always room for one more Christmas song, I think.
My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.
