Johnny Mathis Quotes

Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.

Nat King Cole - I listen to him a lot.

Nat King Cole was a really big influence.

Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.

Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.

I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.

Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

What other single human being has touched and transformed the existence of so many? She walked in the slums and ghettos of the world, not on a tour of inspection, but as one who could not feel contentment when others were hungry

it is the personal and individual thing which is done by one human being for another that is the most valuable assistance which can be rendered in time of trouble. Better not only for the one who receives, but a thousand times happier for the one who gives.

I think Lin-Manuel deserves absolutely everything that he's getting. He is an extremely gifted guy, a very fine human being, and loves the theater. Loves it.

I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.

Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master.

My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.

I'm a huge fan of R. Kelly's. He's a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

Boman Irani is a wonderful human being and a terrific actor.

It's just as important to be a good human being as it is to be a good actor.

Ranjith is a great human being who cares for his community and his people a lot.

I have met Sunil Dutt-ji two or three times and though I don't have a special memory of these meetings, I know that he was a gentleman and a fantastic human being.