There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.
From Michael Bolton
You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.
Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song.
No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.
You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.
With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.
When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.
When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.
We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.
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