Johnny Mathis Quotes
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My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it!
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I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me.
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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.
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I've found that the more friends I have, the luckier I am.
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My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.
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When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
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My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.
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Tony Bennett and me are all the same... and he's still singing. I don't know what else to do.
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When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring.
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I decided right away that whomever was going to advise me had to be fundamentally interested in music. This protected me from the skullduggery common to the music industry then and that still exists today. Of course, using this method meant that some things we didn't know and just had to learn how to do it together.
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I would say three-quarters of what I do depends on the sincerity of it. You can croak, but if you croak good, they'll still listen.
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You know the secret to dunking a ball? Big hands. You've got to be able to palm it, and I couldn't.
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I love Puccini and that oriental influence in his music.