Johnny Mathis Quotes

I'm not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits.

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.

I'm able to provide for my family and the people that I love with things that I never used to be able to. I'm getting to make music and work with amazing people. I just feel really lucky.

It's all positive energy from me, man.

If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises.

If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.

I have been very fortunate in my life. I have had a lot of happiness. I have a great family and I work a lot, and that's what I like to do.

I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they're blessings. They're blessings in every way. Whether you're able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you're just a channel.

I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line.

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.

I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Anything that is worth struggling for is worth singing for.

I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.