Tom Jones Quotes - Page 2

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• People who go out and do hits year after year after year, I think the fans deserve more than that. The audiences deserve more than just that. You need to give them something new, or things you really love to sing. And they love it.

  Tom Jones

  Thinking, Deserve More, Years

  "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 lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.

  Tom Jones

  Song, Essence, Trying

  "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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• The Musto Skiff combines the thrill of skiff performance with smooth control and well... it just blows your pants off!

  Tom Jones

  Blow, Thrill, Pants

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• When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and they've already written their autobiography. I didn't want to write it too soon. I wanted to live a while and write about things that I felt were important to me - growing up in Wales, and the characters that I met and listened to.

  Tom Jones

  Growing Up, Writing, Character

  "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 think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.

  Tom Jones

  Love Is, Thinking, Age Love

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• Pussy cat, pussy cat, I love you, yes I do. You and your pussy cat nose.

  Tom Jones

  Love You, Cat, Animal

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• Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.

  Tom Jones

  Thinking, Coal Miners, Tuberculosis

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• I realize that singing is saving my life, once I started again.

  Tom Jones

  Singing, Saving, Realizing

  "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 love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.

  Tom Jones

  Home, Listening, Stuff

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• Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself... I'm fascinated by the thought of being an actor, but it's too hard. And I think Shakespeare-which has been suggested to me-might be a bit of a stretch.

  Tom Jones

  Thinking, Play, Might

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• I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!

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  Rocks, Kicking, Singers

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• When I was young, I was interested more in (singing the songs). ... I can't say I'm enjoying it more now than I did before, because I loved it when I first sang in Wales, in a pub or a club. I loved it then, getting up and singing. Or as a kid in school, I've always loved to sing. But I think when you've been around a long time, it's even more satisfying to think that people are listening to me now, and I've been in the business for a long time.

  Tom Jones

  Song, School, Kids

  "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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• Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

  Tom Jones

  Winning, Awards, Ideas

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• I want to find out more about how the Backstreet Boys get their incredible sound. I've got both their albums and I would love to cover one of their songs

  Tom Jones

  Song, Boys, Sound

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• My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

  Tom Jones

  Real, Names

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• Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.

  Tom Jones

  Comfort, Littles, Saws

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• I'm a lyric man - I'm always looking for meaningful songs.

  Tom Jones

  Meaningful, Song, Men

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2017

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• I think the first time I ever wore a tuxedo was when I played at the Talk Of The Town in 1967, because it was a nightclub and that was the thing to do.

  Tom Jones

  Thinking, Tuxedos, Firsts

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• I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.

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  Eye, Night, Thinking

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• I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

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  Fashion, Stupid, Band

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• I think the people who really love the way somebody sings, they like to hear it. As long as you don't change your style completely or do something that has nothing to do with what you're known for, which I don't agree with.

  Tom Jones

  Thinking, Long, People

  "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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• As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

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  Moving, Keys, Changed

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• I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always.

  Tom Jones

  Thinking, Hands, Looks

  "My Exclusive Interview with Sir Tom Jones, in Which I Fail to Learn How to Be More Like Tom Jones". Interview with Tony Sachs, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2009.

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• I haven't become an American! Having a house in LA is just where the house is. It's just a convenience thing living there. I carry Wales around inside me. I'd consider moving back there one day. I never really left.

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  Moving, House, One Day

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• I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

  Tom Jones

  Married, Ends

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