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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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"When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys."

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"Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight."

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"In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!"

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"I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for."

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"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage."

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"I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say."

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"Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit."

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