Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes
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I am a faith healer. My prayers have immense power, which I utilise whenever I can.
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I've always believed applause is food for an artist.
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I do like rude jokes. They're men jokes.
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I don't put faces on a dartboard. I just love the game, and I think I play it very well.
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I try to keep myself young as possible. I vow to never let my hair go grey.
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Retirement has never entered my mind for one moment because I don't feel the age I am - and I don't act it, and I don't speak like it. When God calls me, that's when I stop. Until then, I'm going to just keep going.
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I had tuberculosis in my mid-20s. I didn't have much work, was living in a damp London basement in a sleeping bag, and ate only every other day. I looked rough and felt very run down.
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I've had Harleys on both sides of the Atlantic, so I'm a lover of a Harley motorcycle.
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My first manager chose the name Engelbert Humperdinck for me. My real name is Arnold George Dorsey. It didn't really quite hit the entertainment industry the way it should have. But when my manager chose the name Engelbert Humperdinck, I had a hit record immediately, which was called 'Release Me.'
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Eventually, when I recorded Release Me, it sort of stamped my style, and I've followed in that vein ever since.
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When people hear romantic songs, they fall in love.
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I bought Jayne Mansfield's mansion in L.A. after her death. I had met her in England and remembered her perfume. When I moved in, I could smell her, and I saw her apparition.
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'La Marseillaise' sounds best ringing around a packed sports stadium. Its lyrics evoke revolution, conflict, taking up arms, preparing for the fight - everything my music does not! Even in our largely peaceful times, it retains its rousing, martial air that gives it a power that hasn't diminished.
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I work out: I do a little jump-rope. I punch a bag in the gym. I do the treadmill. I do stationary-bike exercise. I maintain a healthy diet.
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I always take a hot shower before I go onstage. It's so refreshing. I let the steam into my throat. That's the way I warm up my vocal cords - in the shower. I start by humming and then finally singing.
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There was a time I'd do 300 shows a year.
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There are so many people getting dementia. It is like an epidemic now. It is a terrible disease because once you get it, your life changes completely.
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I'm very superstitious.
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I hate holding grudges.
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Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.
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I have represented romance all my life. Some have called me the King of Romance.
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The vocal chords are like most other muscles that need to be worked out.
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I still get nervous before every performance.
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From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.