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" Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about. "
Johnny Mathis
Time
Truth
Try
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" I had a good record company right from the beginning, and I'm still with them after all these years. I think I may be the only person in the world that's had a tenure this long with any record company. "
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" I've lost a few notes on the top. But I've gained a little insight about what makes people comfortable when they're listening or watching a performance of mine. It usually has to do with singing something that isn't vocally too strenuous. "
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" I love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing them in a way that's interesting for the public. "
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" I drank too much, only champagne. "
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" The world changes. The world is completely different now from when I was growing up. Back then, you didn't say things like they say now, out loud, about race and things. But that's just progress. When are we going to find out that we're all the same - we're all absolutely, without a doubt, the same? "
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" That's a big important deal, the way people see you from the stage. Once in a while, I'd ask people, 'How did you enjoy the show?' 'Hey, you looked great.' But how did I sound? That visual look is very important to people. "
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" I have to remember that no matter how often I perform, there are certain songs that the audience truly wants to hear, and even though I've sung it 100,000 times, it may be their first time hearing them. "
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Matter
Time
" It's a joy to listen to someone at the top of their craft. "
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Someone
Listen
" No, I don't regret my decision at all, especially after I started this music career. My eyes were as big as saucers. "
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Music
Eyes
Regret
" I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity. "
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Reason
People
Longevity
" Some of the stuff, I absolutely don't remember recording it, it's been so long. But I do like to try to throw in something a little different for the audience once in a while. Because a lot of these people who come to see have come back many, many times. "
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Audience
Long
Remember
" It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling. "
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Feeling
Lie
Personal
" I'm known for mushy music. "
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Known
Music
" I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy. If one dies, you have another one. So living is a process that you have to do by yourself, and if you can learn a few little goodies along the way that might make it easier for you, so much the better. "
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People
Happy
Process
" My mom loved my Christmas music, so I did an awful lot of it! "
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Did
Music
Mom
" I was a mediocre basketball player. But I was there, and I could remember the plays. And my basketball coach, after he retired from teaching, would come to my performances all the time. And I was very happy about that, because I was not memorable as a basketball player. "
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Basketball
Remember
" Dad would come home from doing odd jobs, and sometimes he'd come home late at night with lumber, and he'd rumble around with all this wood in our small place. We'd finish putting it away, and then we'd play that piano. I'll be eternally grateful to him. "
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Place
Night
Grateful
" The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They raised seven children on domestic wages, in a city like San Francisco, and did nothing but work, work, work. "
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Work
Children
City
" I have no way of knowing why my career has lasted so long other than the fact that people like the sound of my voice. Fortunately, I've been able to maintain it. "
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Voice
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" I was very fortunate to have a wonderful woman as my voice coach when I started singing professionally. I was only 19, so now it's been 60 years! "
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Years
Coach
Now
" I cannot tell you how lucky I am: the songs that I sing, I like! "
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Lucky
I Am
Sing
" I started off as a kid singing with my dad. My dad was my best pal. But he had seven kids, and I was the only one who was kind of interested in what he was playing and singing at the piano. And he was not only my dad, but he was my best pal, and I was interested in doing whatever he wanted to. "
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Best
Doing
Kind
" I thought I sounded a little like Eartha Kitt for a long time, and I didn't like it. "
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Long
Time
Thought
" I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do. "
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Really
Music
" The fact that I'm not a good musician - I throw it around, tell people that - it doesn't matter that much. It only matters to me, because I idolized good musicians. I absolutely worshiped them. "
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Good
Matter
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Days
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