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