Top 52 Vinton's Quotes
#1. Music has fed me a lot of ideas ... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.
David Lynch
#2. The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
Bobby Vinton
#3. To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
Bobby Vinton
#4. He was simply undeveloped compared to teammates who had grown up in the American West, linking 60 mph carved turns at Sun Valley or Crystal Mountain.
Nathaniel Vinton
#5. I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.
Vinton Cerf
#6. What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.
Vinton Cerf
#7. I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.
Bobby Vinton
#8. All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
Bobby Vinton
#9. They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.
Vinton Cerf
#10. To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
Bobby Vinton
#12. Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
Vinton Cerf
#13. They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.
Bobby Vinton
#14. I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.
Bobby Vinton
#15. I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.
Bobby Vinton
#16. I don't wanna say goodbye for the summer Knowing the love we'll miss Oh let us make a pledge to meet in September And seal it with a kiss Guess it's gonna be a cold lonely summer But I'll fill the emptiness I'll send you all my love every day in a letter Sealed with a kiss.
Bobby Vinton
#17. I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.
Bobby Vinton
#18. I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.
Vinton Cerf
#19. I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
Bobby Vinton
#20. As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
Bobby Vinton
#21. I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.
Bobby Vinton
#22. When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
Bobby Vinton
#23. I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.
Vinton Cerf
#24. The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
Vinton Cerf
#25. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
Vinton Cerf
#26. Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.
Bobby Vinton
#27. Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.
Vinton Cerf
#28. Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
Bobby Vinton
#29. Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
Vinton Cerf
#30. Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.
Bobby Vinton
#31. Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.
Bobby Vinton
#32. Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best.
Bobby Vinton
#33. I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others to take advantage of masses of information that are inaccessible or too vast to process in real time today.
Vinton Cerf
#34. Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
Vinton Cerf
#35. Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.
Bobby Vinton
#36. I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.
Bobby Vinton
#37. It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.
Bobby Vinton
#38. On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
Vinton Cerf
#39. Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.
Bobby Vinton
#40. The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.
Vinton Cerf
#41. The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
Vinton Cerf
#42. It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.
Vinton Cerf
#43. I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.
Bobby Vinton
#44. All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.
Bobby Vinton
#45. The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.
Vinton Cerf
#46. Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.
Bobby Vinton
#47. I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
Vinton Cerf
#48. I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.
Bobby Vinton
#49. I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.
Vinton Cerf
#50. Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.
Bobby Vinton
#51. Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.
Bobby Vinton
#52. I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
Bobby Vinton
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