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Tom Wopat

"There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer."

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"There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer."

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"There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"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!"
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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."
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"I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part."
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"I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff."
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