Tom Jones Quotes

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• It's not unusual to be loved by anyone, it's not unusual to have fun with anyone. But when I see you hanging about with anyone, it's not unusual to see me cry. I wanna' die.

  Tom Jones

  Fun, Cry, Unusual

  Song: It's Not Unusual

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• Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

  Tom Jones

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Vegetables

  Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones (2000). “The Fantasticks”, p.92, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them.

  Tom Jones

  Song, Thinking, Performing

  "What's new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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• You can't be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it's my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing.

  Tom Jones

  Sexy, Voice, Way

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• First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.

  Tom Jones

  Mean, Singing, Bed

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• Elvis was always over the top. That's why he had that gold lamé suit! He designed his jumpsuits himself. He always said, "If you're going to be a star, you should look like one."

  Tom Jones

  Stars, Looks, Should

  "Tom Jones: 'With Chuck Berry, Every Note Was a New Word'". Interview with Kevin Perry, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. June 26, 2012.

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• I would want to be known as a great singer; that the records I've made and the performances that I've done to be remembered. But the voice is the most important thing. The showmanship goes along with it. But I want to be remembered for my vocal ability.

  Tom Jones

  Voice, Important, Done

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• It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.

  Tom Jones

  Wine, Men, Desire

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• It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

  Tom Jones

  Home, Green, Grass

  Song: Green Green Grass Of Home

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• Love is in the air everywhere I look around. Love is in the air every sight and every sound.

  Tom Jones

  Love Is, Sight, Air

  Song: Love Is In The Air

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• Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.

  Tom Jones

  Thinking, Singing, Enemy

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• I was full of fire when I was young. I wanted to attack anything.

  Tom Jones

  Fire, Young, Wanted

  "Tom Jones isn't letting the green, green grass grow under his feet". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.independent.co.uk. September 22, 2016.

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• You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

  Tom Jones

  Art, Soul, Talent

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• I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.

  Tom Jones

  Weakness, Watches, Buying

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• I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

  Tom Jones

  Morning, Real, Successful

  "Tom Jones: He's actually quite unusual" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• Try to remember the kind of September
  When life was slow and oh
  so mellow.
  Try to remember the kind of September
  When grass was green and grain was yellow.
  Try to remember the kind of September
  When you were a tender and callow fellow.
  Try to remember and if you remember
  then follow
  follow.

  Tom Jones

  Yellow, September 11, Trying

  "Song: 'Try to Remember'". 1960.

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• I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

  Tom Jones

  Character, Thinking, Voice

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• There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

  Tom Jones

  Voice, Long, People

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• People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

  Tom Jones

  People, Culture, Stage

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• I like to drink to suit my location.

  Tom Jones

  Location, Suits, Drink

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• I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

  Tom Jones

  Natural, Rhythm

  "Tom Jones: 'Spiritual songs are natural to me'". Interview With Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2010.

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• When I started off in Wales, I sang and accompanied myself with guitar in the '50s. And then I got a band together, which is a rhythm section, really. I used to do a lot of blues, and rhythm and blues, and '50s rock 'n' roll and country, and all kinds of stuff.

  Tom Jones

  Country, Rocks, Guitar

  "What's new, Tom Jones? The hitmaker is still finding more things to sing about". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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• I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

  Tom Jones

  Father, Coal Miners, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

  Tom Jones

  Singers, Serious, Felt

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• I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.

  Tom Jones

  Singing, Choir, My Own

  "Tom Jones: 'Spiritual songs are natural to me'". Interview With Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2010.

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