Johnny Mathis Quotes
Christmas is never going to go away, and it's always going to be there. And there's always room for one more Christmas song, I think.
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
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One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
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If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
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Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
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I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.
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Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.
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I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.
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We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'
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My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas.
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Christmas is never going to go away, and it's always going to be there. And there's always room for one more Christmas song, I think.
