Top 18 Michael Bolton Quotes

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

You’re presuming too much by using the word legacy – presuming that someone is going to care.

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

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

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

One song will launch you, but you don’t want to be a one-song artist.

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

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.

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.

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?

You can’t make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.

I’m proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.

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.

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.

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song.

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

The whole industry evolves around a great song.