Tom Wopat Quotes

#1. The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

Tom Wopat

#2. There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

Tom Wopat

#3. With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

Tom Wopat

#4. I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

Tom Wopat

#5. I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

Tom Wopat

#6. When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

Tom Wopat

#7. When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

Tom Wopat

#8. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?

David Foster Wallace

#9. Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy 'til we see the sun. I know we only met but lets pretend its love. And never, never, never stop for anyone. Tonight lets get some and live when we're young!

One Direction

#10. There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

Tom Wopat

#11. When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

Leo Ornstein

#12. It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

Tom Wopat

#13. My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.

Janet Jackson

#14. I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

Tom Wopat

#15. As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

Tom Wopat

#16. I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan.

Tom Wopat

#17. To create a kind of balance between a butcher and a sheep, you either take the knife from the butcher or teach the sheep how to use a knife!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

Tom Wopat

#19. Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens.

George Galloway

#20. Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

Gene Hackman

#21. I guess you only know your home when you come back to it.

Ed Brubaker

#22. How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

Maureen O'Hara

#23. I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

Bing Gordon

#24. I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

Tom Wopat

#25. Once we were young, now we are adult.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

Tom Wopat

#27. The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

Waylon Jennings