Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes
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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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If you don't put out material that's going to last, you're not going to last.
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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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I really enjoy what I do. And if you want a lasting career, you have to work at it. Keep it current. Keep it fresh.
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I have a nine handicap in golf - I can always find time for a round - and I'm on my treadmill and cross-trainer every day.
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At seventeen years old, I found out I could sing, and I got up and sang in a club, and I got a big hand, and I thought, 'I'm gonna continue this.' So that's how it all began.
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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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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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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'm very superstitious.
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My fans have supported me in concerts around the world regardless of how well my current album was selling.
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I still get nervous before every performance.
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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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There was a time I'd do 300 shows a year.
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I like the name Engelbert. It's unusual. But Humperdinck? Not so much.
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I don't think you should rely on medicine. I think you should rely upon herbal doctors, acupuncture, and doctors outside the medical world, with different kinds and forms of treatment.
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When I first got successful, I was particularly aware of being immaculate at all times, so I would get on a plane in one outfit, and get off in another. It doesn't happen in today's world, but when you are met by the press at both ends, you do have to.
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I learned a lot from Elvis. He never took his image seriously. So many performers today put their image before themselves. It can ruin them. Like Elvis, I never took my image seriously.
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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've had many highs in my career, and Eurovision has been a wonderful experience.
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My music has been my passport to the world, and it's been amazing for me.
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My father was 91 when he passed away of natural causes, and my mother died aged 88. She had a heart condition and had many heart attacks throughout her life, but she had ten children, so that would have put a strain on her body.
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When the BBC approached me, it just felt right for me to be a part of an institution like Eurovision.
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I play golf and ride my motorcycle - my Harley - around the hills of California.