Words matter. These are the best Michael Buble Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor – a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can’t read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn’t read that way.
My entire life has been inspired by how my family has made me feel.
I want to be around for a long time. I want this to be a career. I want to sing like Tony Bennett. I want to be an old man and I want to go through all the ups and downs and I wanna still love what I do.
I thought without a doubt I would be a fisherman.
The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn’t have, ‘I love Frank’ on it, it had, ‘I love AC/DC’, ‘Guns N Roses’, ‘Pearl Jam’. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.
I truly thought I’d never come back to music.
I just don’t want people to think I’m too sweet of a boy; and little miss angel boy, because I’m going to get caught doing somebody horrible.
Every time a new rock singer comes out they don’t say, ‘Are you the new John Lennon?’ Every time a new rapper comes out, it’s not, ‘Are you the new Dre?’ I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.
I think I’m a mama’s boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I’m a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.
The greatest records in the world were made without going to Auto-tune or Pro Tools, or having some click track. If they could do it, why can’t we? Something’s been lost in music. It’s all been over-produced, squashed down, totally compressed.
I love Christmas. I’m really sentimental about it. My parents made it awesome for us, and we were allowed to be kids for a long time.
A lot changed the moment I had kids; I had no idea of the perspective it would give me. It made making the right decisions a lot easier.
Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives’ guy. He didn’t try to be what he wasn’t. He just did what he did – made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.
I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don’t think it’s money. I don’t think it’s – I’m not saying that charity isn’t a great thing. I just think that it’s my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I’m lucky if I lost it all.
Sandalwood is one of the ingredients in Tam Dao, the perfume that I love from Diptyque.
This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I’d be lying to you if I didn’t say that was a big part of it.
I actually own works of art I’ve always wanted to own – I collect photographs by the late William Claxton. I met him in L.A.; later, he agreed to shoot the cover for my album ‘Call Me Irresponsible’ for free. I was so fat at the time, and he made me look as good as I possibly could.
Having two boys of my own who I love more than I’ll ever love myself, I can’t tell you how crushing it would be if they couldn’t feel that they could tell their father that they were gay – or different in any way.
The money never mattered. I’m not kidding you. It hasn’t really brought me any kind of happiness.
The fame is the downside. I can’t think of many positive things about it – except that when I go to parties, I don’t have to stand there like a lemon.
I have the most eclectic audience – I’ve got gay, I’ve got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don’t all come because I’m the Sinatra kid, though that’s a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself.
There are a lot of people – and time does this – who are going to be severely embarrassed for their bias and intolerance. And they’re going to have to live with that; that’s going to be their legacy. I refuse to have that as part of my legacy.
People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.
I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That’s what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice.
I was three or four, and my mother would have a Bing Crosby record playing through the house. It was my introduction to jazz, harmonies, melodies, musicianship, and emotion.
