John Royce Mathis Quotes

• When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself – and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I’ve said it over and over again. I think it is boring.

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• When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

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• When I do an album I try to find a producer that’s excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell – which is their No. 1 priority.

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• Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

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• My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I’ve tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

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• It’s very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

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• It’s just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.

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• In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you’re not careful, you will forget what you are about – and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

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• I’m just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

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• I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don’t. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

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• I really, really enjoy music and that’s why I do what I do.

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• I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

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• Even though there’s no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am still excited about having a career where I can sing the best music in the world, and people will come and hear me because of the hit records I’ve had in the past.

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• But I am very grateful for my success, and with success, of course, comes a whole lot of celebrity.

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John Royce Mathis (14)

Birth:	30th September, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Singer

About

John Royce Mathis (Johnny Mathis) was born in Gilmer, Texas, USA. He is an American singer. He studied at San Francisco State College. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts to date. He has also recorded six albums of Christmas music. His singles list shown below: "Wonderful! Wonderful!", "It's Not For Me To Say", "Gina", "What Will My Mary Say", "When a Child Is Born", "Chances Are", "The Twelfth of Never", "Wild Is the Wind", "A Certain Smile", and "Misty". He has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three separate recordings- in 1998 for "Chances Are", in 2002 for "Misty", and in 2008 for "It's Not for Me to Say".

 

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