Wopat Tom Quotes & Sayings

Nice car, asshat!" one of them shouted before they did some kind of fist-bumping move that made me want to bump my fist, too.
Right into their faces. — Rachel Hawkins

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

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. — Tom Wopat

I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy. — Tamsin Egerton

I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan. — Tom Wopat

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like. — 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. — Tom Wopat

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

I just didn't feel comfortable hitting a wedge. To me it's against the spirit of the game, and maybe it would have been against the spirit of a Frenchman. — Jean Van De Velde

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage. — Bob Dylan

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! — Tom Wopat

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible. — Tom Wopat

He smiles. it nearly breaks my heart. I know that smile. It's a memory that's tainted, something that should have been happy but didn't turn out that way. — H.M. Ward

The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural
and last but not least
political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed. — Johannes Grenzfurthner

It's really important to take time for yourself because if you don't know what it is like to be a real person and spend time with a sense of normality, how can you play normal people in films? — Douglas Booth

Shit. What have kids got to be worried about now? If they want trouble, they should go live in Bangladesh. — Jeffrey Eugenides

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. — Tom Wopat

He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up all the romance that her age and environment led her to desire — F Scott Fitzgerald

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. — George Santayana

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer? — Paula Abdul

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

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words. — Edward Abbey

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart. — 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. — Tom Wopat

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. — Tom Wopat

In fact the Gods were as puzzled by all this as the wizards were, but they were powerless to do anything and in any case were engaged in an eons-old battle with the Ice Giants, who had refused to return the lawnmower. — Terry Pratchett

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them
not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves. — Douglas Kennedy

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

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff. — Tom Wopat

I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth. — Cornel West