Tom Wopat Quotes

• When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

  Tom Wopat

  Song, Years, Singing

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• It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

  Tom Wopat

  Music, Voice, Emotion

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• I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

  Tom Wopat

  Taken, Thinking, Littles

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• When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

  Tom Wopat

  Song, Truth, Holiday

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• The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

  Tom Wopat

  Education, Country, Rocks

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• I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

  Tom Wopat

  Rocks, Tunes, Different

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• I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.

  Tom Wopat

  Interesting, Agents, Want

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• I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

  Tom Wopat

  Love, Kids, Land

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• With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

  Tom Wopat

  Heart, Simple, Groove

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• I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.

  Tom Wopat

  Experience, Excited, Performing

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• I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

  Tom Wopat

  Singing, Spotlight, Come Up

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• As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

  Tom Wopat

  Song, Voice, Gone

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