Words matter. These are the best Rob Pilatus Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Maybe this was my luck that I was in Munich the only one with a look like this, the only one with an image like this. But in the States, there is a lot of more competition.
We were tired of being made fun of by Arsenio Hall.
We really love our fans.
It’s not enough just to sing good, just to look good. You have to be perfect.
That’s why I left Germany and went to L.A., that’s why I hooked up with the lawyers, that’s why I hooked up with a big management company – just to protect us, to keep the kind of image I could live with.
Twenty years from now we want people to come out and see us sing and dance in Las Vegas. Like Sammy Davis Jr., like Julio Iglesias, like Tom Jones. I believe there is a big future for us.
The Germans are very critical. They like to drag acts down. They make you feel you’re not so good – not so important.
I am a fan of Mick Jagger and the Stones.
I looked at all the superstars. What is their different thing? Their hair. Beatles, Elvis, James Dean, James Brown, Marilyn Monroe. I wanted to be a star. I said, ‘I have to fix my hair.’
People think we choreograph. We dance four years in clubs. We watch videos every day. We do a step, it ends up a sensation, and for us it was just a copy maybe of a Gene Kelly video.
We were seduced, we were abused and we felt very guilty.
Suddenly, I was interesting to girls. I wasn’t just a Kunta Kinte.
Now bands have to sing live, now people watch who sings on the record, now people want to hear the real music and not just plastic bands anymore. So I think we changed the music business to a better, more honest way.
If I’m nice, I get little bonbons; if I’m not nice, it’s trouble.
We are big fans of Scritti Politti.
You hear blacks are good in sports and good singers. But you don’t hear about black lawyers or black politicians. I learned things later, but went through some hurt before I learned – before I had a better picture of black people and a better understanding of myself.
Once we realized what happened to Boney M., we wanted to come to the States. In Europe, artists just don’t have the same protection they do over here.
I knew right then and there, it was the beginning of the end for Milli Vanilli. When my voice got stuck in the computer, and it just kept repeating and repeating, I panicked. I didn’t know what to do. I just ran off the stage.
We sold our souls to the devil. We lied to our families and our friends. We let down our fans.
It’s OK to laugh at us.
We didn’t want to do any more interviews. The more we talked, the worse things got.
We didn’t want to receive the Grammy. We knew that we were going to get caught.
Boney M. were not allowed to do interviews, they were not allowed to choose their costumes. They looked like slaves, and this was the producer’s take.
I warn the industry, they shouldn’t underestimate the fact that Rob and Fab still have a lot of fans. And they should try to forgive us. Because we weren’t bad for the music industry. We changed the music industry.
We went with the wrong attitude to America, too successful with a too big attitude. We were not really knowing how grateful we should be just to have the chance to even lip-sync a record and be exposed to five billion people worldwide.
Fabrice and I are big talents. We can sing as good as any other pop star In the Top Ten.
It seems to me America is the country of second chances.
Everybody asks me if I sing on this record. Even my mother asks me. I am a very proud person and this is embarrassing.
I feel like a mosquito being squeezed.
In the industry we somehow made ourselves a lot of enemies.
One million, two million, three million seems like a lot of money. But if you spend $80,000 a month, it’s really nothing.
With Milli Vanilli, we felt more like bimbos, the bimbos of the music industry, and we didn’t want to be the bimbos anymore.
What we thought brings us a disadvantage, brings us an advantage against the American black rappers, because they look all the same, with their training outfits and sneakers, you know? But we didn’t know this, it wasn’t calculated.
