Latest Olivia Newton-John Quotes from Interviews

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• I just wanna do my music.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I am extremely grateful. And that brings me back to reality on the days I am complaining about something.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Grateful, Reality, Complaining

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• We wake up and are grateful for the day. Not taking away from the pain, because the pain will be there. But you live on.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Pain, Grateful, Wake Up

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Pain, Grief

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• As for highlights, of course "Grease" changed my life and I will always be grateful for that experience.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Grateful, Grease, Changed

  Source: www.mlive.com

• Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Australia, Opening Ceremony

  Source: www.mlive.com

• For me I have learned to enjoy everything, especially performing live, so much more. I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today and just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows!

  Olivia Newton-John

  Today, Used, Stage

  Source: www.mlive.com

• I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Daughter, Careers, Birth

  Source: www.mlive.com

• As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you have so much less time to develop as an artist and perfect your craft. So many things today are "instant" and, that's not always a good thing.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Thinking, Artist, Perfect

  Source: www.mlive.com

• I love seeing young girls and their parents and grandparents at my concerts all loving the music from Grease when I perform those songs (and yes, I do perform a bunch of them!).

  Olivia Newton-John

  Girl, Song, Grandparent

  Source: www.mlive.com

• I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Symphony, Orchestra, Excited

  Source: www.mlive.com

• I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of my songs to a whole new level. I wouldn't say I really change what I do but, having those talented musicians behind me, along with my band, really makes the songs so much bigger and more fun to sing.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Fun, Symphony

  Source: www.mlive.com

• A few years ago I appeared on GLEE and, Jane Lynch and I did a remake of the song that was very popular - someone told me it was in the Top 100 when it was released. First, walking on the set of GLEE the day we filmed it was surreal as they had recreated the entire original set from the music video. It was bizarre - but fun.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Fun, Years

  Source: www.mlive.com

• John Farrar, my dear friend and songwriter/producer of most of my hits (he wrote "You're The One That I Want" and "Hopelessly Devoted to You," among others), wrote the song ["I Think You Might Like It"] and it captures so much fun and joy! Having that reunion as well, with John and John - made the project even more special!

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.mlive.com

• I have really been blessed in my career with some wonderful songwriters and in turn, songs.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Blessed, Careers

  Source: www.mlive.com

• John [Travolta] and I have remained very close friends ever since we did Grease. When I was told that "You're the One That I Want" was named the #1 duet in history and, during a text chat with John letting him know he said "we should record a Christmas song." Of course I said yes.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Grease, Want

  Source: www.mlive.com

• There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my mother wasn't too thrilled. She wanted me to go to university and get a degree or do something, and my father, he liked opera so he wasn't too thrilled either, because he wanted me to be an opera singer and I didn't have - as he said, I don't really have the strength to do that.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Mother, Father, Math

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think that I've always been on a search. I have my own kind of belief in love is the being, but I think that I've always been searching for truth and I think there's lots of truths and I think we should respect that in each other, and that's really what I wanted to bring across.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Love Is, Thinking, Belief

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I'm an 18-years thriver, I call myself, not a survivor, because I feel like I'm in thriving my life even better than I ever have, and I want to encourage other women that are going through this journey that here I am.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Journey, Years, Here I Am

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Man is taking over the forests and polluting the oceans, the animal species are threatened. I try to contribute as much as I can. We're really messing up our environment. I try to get people more aware of what's going on so that they can, even in a local way, try to prevent pollution to their lakes and rivers and prevent nuclear dumping in the oceans - it's bad enough that they're doing it in residential areas, but putting it in the ocean! Eventually it's going to pollute our food resources and, if the ocean dies, we're gone.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Ocean, Men, Animal

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.

• I love clothes. I don't know a woman who doesn't. But generally women are intrigued with fashion. Designers are almost making fun of us at times.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Fashion, Fun, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Nice, Years, Feelings

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.

• I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend or if they like some work you've done. And if they don't, it's more shattering than anybody else telling you, because they're the most honest.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Thinking, Parent, Your Boyfriend

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said to me, "You've got to work at your career and you've got to be good at it. Okay, you've had a bit of success but that's not longevity. You've got to really work for a long time."

  Olivia Newton-John

  Mother, Intelligent, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• A lot of people lose a sense of reality when they achieve success. That's a terrible danger because you have to remember who you were and who you are basically and that you're still a person and all that out there is a kin of magic - what people see out there is magic, it's media magic. It's not very real and it's very glamorous, but you have to keep a sense of you through it all.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Real, Media, People

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.