Quotes by Bobby Vinton - Page 1

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Truth
Smart
Stupid
Bright
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Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Musician
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I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
People
Performers
Sam Cooke
Bobby
Cooke
Roy
Sam
Tour
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It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Different
Long
Today
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To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
People
Play
Years
Me People Nothing
Entertain
Entertain People
Stayed
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Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Drunk
People
Stupid
Things In Life
Wrong Things
Life Stupid People
Unfortunately
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All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Singing
Solo
Song
Surfing
Voice
Background
Gimmick
In Fact
Voices
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Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Younger
Sudden
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I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Jazz
Jazz Music
People
Rock And Roll
Rocks
Big Band
Music Living People
Surprised
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Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Able
Every Night
Littles
Night
Performers
Study
Davis
Best Great Night
Backed
Incorporate
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To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Echoes
Mean
Sound
Me Better Nothing
Better Me Live
Echo
Studio
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I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
New York
Following
New York State
States
Years
Fair
Upper
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They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Change
Cutting
Dedicated
Deserve
Hey
Numbers
Time Change Your
Bobby
Change Time Your
Cut
Change Time Look
Number
Listing
Tires
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The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Business
Different
Entertainment
Fading
Fading Away
Format
Music Business
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Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Jealous
Add
Great Guy
Guy
Just One
Redneck
Special
Elvis
They Say
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All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Education
Decision
Good Education
Thinking
Decisions
Education Good Money
Holding
Right Decisions
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I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Travel
Army
Decided
Fun
Las Vegas
Troupe
Vegas
Dates
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As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Critics
Drug
Guy
Sorry
God Always Me
Rules
God Me Nobody
Hip
Straight
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I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Blue
Guitar
Musician
School
Schooled
Velvet
Arranger
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When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Girl
Character
Dancing
Orchestra
Singing
Theater
Cast
Takers
Production
Miller
Owned
Ticket
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Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Enjoyed
First Time
Minutes
Nervous
Records
Time Live First Time
Sang
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I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Competition
Guy
Hey
Jagger
Play
Eliminated
Mick Jagger
You Guys
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I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Dollars
Million Dollars
Records
Video
Invest
Hit Record
Million
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Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Crowds
Hey
People
Records
School
Selling
Although
Outer
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Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Arena
Bigs
Stadiums
Today
Seat
Popular
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Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Education
Believe
Session
Talking
Education Good Believe
Musicians
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Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Music
Romantic
Changed
Clothes
New Generation
Rap
Rocks
Song
Used
Now
Songs
Times
Loves
Generation
Rock
Morals
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I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Adults
Records
Teenager
Adult
Sell
Million
Popular
Teenagers
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I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Movie
Jail
Radio
Radio Stations
Records
Rocks
Seeing
Stations
Elvis
Gets
Saw
Himself
Rock
Puts
Store
Takes
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I don't wanna say goodbye for the summer Knowing the love we'll miss Oh let us make a pledge to meet in September And seal it with a kiss Guess it's gonna be a cold lonely summer But I'll fill the emptiness I'll send you all my love every day in a letter Sealed with a kiss.
Bobby Vinton / Singer
Goodbye
Lonely
Summer
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