Bobby Vinton Quotes

• Brains are never a handicap to a girl if only she hides them under a see-through blouse.

  Bobby Vinton

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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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Big, Group

• 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

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  Tags in Stupid

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Today, Big

• 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

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  Tags in Play, Audience

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Romantic

• 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

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  Tags in Time, Change

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Better

• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Music

• 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

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Believe

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Best

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Live

• It’s just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn’t know how to get started today.

  Bobby Vinton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Today, Different

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lost, Popular

• Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn’t a singer.

  Bobby Vinton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Nobody

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rock, Made

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, School

• I was smart, to tell you the truth. I’m not really bright, but I’m not stupid.

  Bobby Vinton

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Smart

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Remember, Play

• I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.

  Bobby Vinton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Tour

Bobby Vinton (30)

Birth:	16th April, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Singer

About

Bobby Vinton is an American pop music singer of Polish and Lithuanian ethnic background. In pop music circles, he became known as "The Polish Prince of Poch". His most popular song, "Blue Velvet", peaked at No. 1 on the now renamed Billboard Pop Singles Chart. It also served as inspiration for the film of the same name. He graduated with a degree in musical composition. Billboard Magazine called Bobby Vinton "the all-time most successful love singer of the 'Rock-Era'". Vinton's alma mater, Duquesne University, awarded him an honorary doctorate in music in 1978.

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• 1918 - Vernon Howard
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