Michael Bolton Quotes

24 quotations by Michael Bolton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

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

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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