Bobby Vinton Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Rock

• 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

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  Tags in Happy, School, High

• 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

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  Tags in Great, Today, True

• 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

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  Tags in Today, Tough

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Big, Few

• 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

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  Tags in Travel, Fun

• 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

  Topics in God

  Tags in Sorry

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Through, Everybody

• 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

  Topics in Education, Money

• 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

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  Tags in Fact, Songs

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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