Michael Bolton Quotes

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

To be honest I listen to the female opinion on my photos. If all the girls in the office choose a certain shot, even if I don't like it, it becomes a front runner because, really, what do I know about how others perceive me?

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

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

You know, fans who think we were made for each other and describe it in excruciating detail. You get peculiar things and beautiful things. But either way they're clearly thinking about you, which is nice.

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.

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

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

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

I still get butterflies. It's because there's a certain level of responsibility you carry when doing a concert. You've got to sound at least as good as the record.

I'm pretty irreverent. There is a lot of need to find humour in life. Although I'd never be as disrespectful to laugh at someone's expense.

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

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

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.