Quotes by Michael Feinstein - Page 1

I wake up every day and count blessings.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Day Every Day Wake Up
Count
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I think it should be illegal for people to throw away music.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Illegal
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The arts are tremendously powerful in bringing people with opposing views together.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Opposing
Views
Tremendously
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I've certainly developed as a vocalist. I find my early recordings very difficult to listen to.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Vocalist
Recordings
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Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Believe
Believe In Yourself
Discipline
Express Yourself
Growing
Believe In Yourself Believe Yourself
Yourself
Find
Express
Ways
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For me, there is no point in doing a duet unless it is organic or there is an emotional thru line.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
No Point
Duet
Organic
Thru
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There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Author
Performs
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My entire career proves to me that if you believe in what you're doing, you will reap the benefits.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Reap
Believe Me Will
Entire Career
Proves
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I've always found that the most powerful way to create change is to be myself and not be afraid to express who I am.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Most Powerful
Change Myself I Am
Powerful Way
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I'm very mindful of trying to do something good in the world. When I see injustice in the world, it's very hard for me.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Injustice
Good World Me
Mindful
Something Good
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Most of the musicals I go to I simply don't enjoy, so I don't go to them unless a number of people I trust say I have to.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Musicals
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I started out as a pianist and singer in gay and piano bars - they were the only places I could get a job singing show tunes.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Bars
Pianist
Show Tunes
Tunes
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Sinatra is so connected with the persona of the 'Guys and Dolls' characters even though he had great conflicts with Frank Loesser personally.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Dolls
Frank
Persona
Conflicts
Sinatra
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The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Air
Died
Extraordinary
Gershwin
Legacy
Today
George
Originally
Vital
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He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Gershwin
Names
Numbers
People
Music Care People
George
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I always try to get back to the original source of the song. It's not always there in the sheet music, which is sometimes just a sketchy blueprint of what the song is about.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Music Always Song
Blueprint
Music Song Sometimes
Sheet
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I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Important
Long
Significant
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Activism is a very admirable way to create change, but it has to go hand in hand with personal contact with the people with whom we have opposing points of view; without that, there will never be any movement.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Activism
Admirable
Contact
Opposing
Change View People
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I will not programme generic orchestrations but try to find original ones - when I play Richard Rodgers songs, for example, I have Peggy Lee's original orchestrations that I got from her granddaughter for them.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Generic
Granddaughter
For Example
Lee
Peggy
Programme
Rodgers
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I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Ohio
Piano
Years
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As hackneyed and cliche as it sounds, follow your heart. We are all given intuition and instincts, and sometimes it is hard to follow those instincts with the fears and pressures that surround us - but you have to do it.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Follow Your Heart
Intuition
Surround
Instincts
Fears
Follow
Pressures
Sounds
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I meditate a lot and pray for guidance. If, in a moment of self-contemplation or meditation, I were to feel very strongly that I shouldn't be an entertainer anymore, that I should be doing something else, I would stop immediately.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Guidance
Meditation
Pray
Meditate
Pray For
Something Else
Strongly
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I just didn't like the word 'gay.' I still don't like it. It's a dumb way of describing sexuality. I like 'queer' or other words, but 'gay' is a word that had a completely different-meaning word and has been reappropriated. I just don't like it.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Describing
Dumb
Sexuality
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I've had a couple of times where things were so extraordinary wonderful that it changed my world. One of them was when I met Ira Gershwin and started working with him. That was a game-changer for me. It changed the entire course and direction of my life.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Gershwin
Ira
Life World Me
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It's great when people have the confidence to discuss their sexuality if it works for them. I can't fault someone for not coming out, because I don't know their journey, what scares them, what's at stake, or how it will affect their personal life or family.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Personal Life
Sexuality
Life Family Great
Affect
Discuss
Scares
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Sound preservation is not only the history of our culture and our country but also a document of life in the world. There is something with sound that is so extraordinary that it can be preserved, that we can listen to a recording made in 1925 and be transported back to that time.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Preservation
Life Time History
Document
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When Sondheim was visiting the Library of Congress, where the manuscript of 'Porgy and Bess' is housed, he was so overcome with emotion while holding the score in his hands that he shed a tear. He shed several tears, but one of the tears actually fell onto the original manuscript. And he was horrified.
Michael Feinstein / Singer
Score
Sondheim
Visiting
Overcome
Holding
Horrified
Manuscript
Onto
Tear
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