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Michael Bolton
American
Musician
About the author
It's an important thing to remember where you came from.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Time
#Information
#Song
Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Being
#Inspiring
For years I've kept a list of dream projects.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Years
#Dream
#Projects
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.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Friends
#Experience
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.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Time
#Now
#Disappointment
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.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Years
I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Love
#Singing
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?
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Thinking
#Years
#Hell
#Control
#Hearing
#Listening
#Voice
A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Famous
The whole industry evolves around a great song.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Song
You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Word
#Care
You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Love
With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Want
#People
#Taste
#Internet
Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Song
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.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Song
#Composers
When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Fight
#Training
We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Influence
#Mentors
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.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#People
#Artists
#Marketing
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.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
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.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Want
#Songs
#Home
#Career
#Business
#Artist
#Pursuit
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.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Movies
One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Want
#Will
#Song
#Artist
No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Nothing
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Understanding
#Intention
#Moments
A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Success
#Music
To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Wonder
#Voice
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.
Michael Bolton,
American
Musician
#Ability
#Music
#Enjoyment