Creativity Quote by Bobby Sherman

Bobby Sherman’s line has the modesty of a teen-idol era that trained its stars to be charming without being scandalous. Asked, presumably, about cocktails - the flashier, nightlife-coded option - he side-steps the hard-liquor glamour and re-centers on “good wines” and “good champagnes,” both tethered to meals or celebrations. It’s not an abstainer’s sermon; it’s a gentle recalibration of the vibe. Wine with dinner reads as adult, tasteful, controlled. Champagne keeps the sparkle without implying excess. The word “good” does a lot of work, too: it signals discernment rather than indulgence, class rather than chaos.

The subtext is brand management. Sherman came up in a pop economy that sold accessibility: the cute boyfriend you could introduce to your parents. “As far as a cocktail” admits the premise - yes, I drink - but the answer stays safely inside middlebrow respectability. Even the slightly awkward phrasing (“basically with meals”) feels like a public figure choosing the least controversial lane in real time, avoiding anything that might read as rowdy.

Context matters: in late-60s/early-70s celebrity culture, alcohol talk could quickly become a shorthand for rebellion or burnout. Sherman offers a different fantasy: success that doesn’t curdle into self-destruction. It’s aspirational, but domesticated - pleasure presented as tasteful habit, not headline.