Michael Bolton famous quotes

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!
-- Michael Bolton

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.
-- Michael Bolton

#Important #Remember

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

#Disappointment #Legacy #Here And Now

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

#Second Chance #Singing #Songwriting

With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD
-- Michael Bolton

#Cds #People #Want

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

#Song #Artist #Want

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing
-- Michael Bolton

#Voice #Wonder

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.
-- Michael Bolton

#Powerful #Different #Elements

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.
-- Michael Bolton

#Passion #Fire #Waiting

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

#Fighting #Heavyweights #Training

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

#Real #Matter #Digital

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

#Song #Giving Up #Home

On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.
-- Michael Bolton

#Moving #Swimming #Water

Said I loved you but I lied, cause this is more than love I feel inside.
-- Michael Bolton

#Romantic #Causes #Lied

You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.
-- Michael Bolton

#Feels

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.
-- Michael Bolton

#Mean #Machines #Input

When your car is about to go off a cliff, it’s a weird time to be thinking about gas mileage and drag coefficients; better to take the right control action—look out the window and steer or use the brake until you’re back on course.
-- Michael Bolton

#Thinking #Car #Looks

Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.
-- Michael Bolton

#Inspiring #Kings #Moving

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

#Mentor #Proud #Singers

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak
-- Michael Bolton

#Understanding #Speak #Moments

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to
-- Michael Bolton

#Audience

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.
-- Michael Bolton

#Care #Too Much #Legacy

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

#Thinking #Artist #People

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
-- Michael Bolton

#Black #Proud

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

#Black #Accepting #Range

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.
-- Michael Bolton

#Song #Information #Bombarded

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

#Opposites #Legs #Tails

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song
-- Michael Bolton

#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

#Song #Elements #Nuance

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit
-- Michael Bolton

#Used

The whole industry evolves around a great song
-- Michael Bolton

#Song #Evolve

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you
-- Michael Bolton

#Bigger #Harder

For years I've kept a list of dream projects.
-- Michael Bolton

#Dream #Years #Lists