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Michael Bolton

"I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra."

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"I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."

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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."

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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."

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"I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off."

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