Quotes About Johnny Mathis

#1. I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.

Clay Aiken

#2. I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.

John Waters

#3. My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.

Gloria Estefan

#4. Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.

Johnny Mathis

#5. Can someone be truly good if they never have the opportunity to act badly?

Christopher Paolini

#6. Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.

Johnny Mathis

#7. But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

Johnny Mathis

#8. But the Nation had already become restless and discouraged at the prolongation of the war, and many believed that it would never terminate except by compromise.

Ulysses S. Grant

#9. Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

Samuel Johnson

#10. Do not read what you don't like

Jim Butcher

#11. I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.

Alan Cumming

#12. I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

Johnny Mathis

#13. In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

Johnny Mathis

#14. Let's love, press your lips to mine. Let's kiss, for that thrill divine.

Johnny Mathis

#15. Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross

Johnny Mathis

#16. And fortunately, I haven't had any problem with my voice. I've been able to sing at a level of consistency that the people are expecting.

Johnny Mathis

#17. It means black kitten," I said with my pulse almost even again.
Ares studied me. "And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten?"
"They're wererats, Ares," I said.
He frowned at me.
"They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#18. Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it.

Kathleen Glasgow

#19. I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

Johnny Mathis

#20. I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.

Johnny Mathis

#21. I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

Johnny Mathis

#22. It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

Johnny Mathis

#23. I am a guy who is first of all a businessman. I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a daredevil. I'm - I'm an explorer.

Evel Knievel

#24. It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.

Johnny Mathis

#25. I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

Johnny Mathis

#26. Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them

Paul Gascoigne

#27. You and the other Sux0rz can all go fuck a duck.

Ernest Cline

#28. Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

Johnny Mathis

#29. My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

Johnny Mathis

#30. When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

Johnny Mathis

#31. I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.

Ben Mendelsohn

#32. When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring.

Johnny Mathis

#33. When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

Johnny Mathis

#34. When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

Clay Shirky

#35. Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I've had in the past.

Johnny Mathis

#36. Here's how to live below your means and tap into the secret wealthy people have used for centuries: get so rich you can afford to.

Steve Siebold

#37. In Canada you can still settle things with your fists. If there's a fight in a bar, no one goes to jail.

Jeremy Hotz