Tom Wopat Quotes

"I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing."
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Singing)

"I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part."
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Being, Now)

"I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff."
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Want)

"It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist."
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Emotion, Voice)

"The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations."
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Education, Experience, Music, Aspirations, Country, Departure, Popular)

"There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible."
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Company, Songs)

"When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!"
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Old, Reason, Singing, Songs, Years)

"With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart."
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Heart)

"I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like."
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Experience, Music)

"There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer."
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Football, Years)

"I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid."
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Love, Wife, Thought, Land, Now, Television)

"As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible."
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Ability, Song, Voice)

"I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things."
- Tom Wopat
(Related: Opera)

"I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan."
- Tom Wopat