Michael Bolotin Quotes

• You’re presuming too much by using the word legacy – presuming that someone is going to care.

  Michael Bolotin

• You can’t make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.

  Michael Bolotin

• With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.

  Michael Bolotin

• Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song.

  Michael Bolotin

• When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

  Michael Bolotin

• When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

  Michael Bolotin

• When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

  Michael Bolotin

• We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

  Michael Bolotin

• To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

  Michael Bolotin

• There are certain people who have become better artists, but they’re brilliant at marketing. I think someone who’s been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

  Michael Bolotin

• The whole industry evolves around a great song.

  Michael Bolotin

• The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That’s the audience I’m geared to.

  Michael Bolotin

• The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.

  Michael Bolotin

• Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn’t want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.

  Michael Bolotin

• Sinatra, here’s a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.

  Michael Bolotin

• One song will launch you, but you don’t want to be a one-song artist.

  Michael Bolotin

• No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

  Michael Bolotin

• It’s understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

  Michael Bolotin

• It’s an important thing to remember where you came from.

  Michael Bolotin

• It’s a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It’s a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

  Michael Bolotin

Michael Bolotin (32)

Birth:	26th February, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

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