38 Quotes by Tom Wopat

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.

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

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

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

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.

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.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.