Facts about Michael Bolton

Occup.	Musician
From	USA
Born	February 26, 1954
Age	71 years

Summary

Michael Bolton is a famous Musician from USA, he/she is 71 years old and still alive, born February 26, 1954.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive. Our collection contains 31 quotes who is written / told by Michael.

31 Famous quotes by Michael Bolton

"Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song"

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"When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song"

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

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

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

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"It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful"

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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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"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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"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"

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"For years I've kept a list of dream projects"

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

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

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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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"The whole industry evolves around a great song"

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"Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone"

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

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

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

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

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

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"No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing"

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"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"

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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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"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"

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"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?"

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