You can’t lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.
TOM JONESI 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,
More Tom Jones Quotes
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You are only a young talent, but we don’t know how old your soul is.
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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.
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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.
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I was full of fire when I was young. I wanted to attack anything.
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I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.
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I’m a lyric man – I’m always looking for meaningful songs.
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I’ve always liked to dance – I’ve got a natural rhythm.
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Time is a funny old thing isn’t it?! We are all surrounded by it!
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We won best breakthrough video, it meant so much to me to win that award, it was a turning point in my career.
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Pussy cat, pussy cat, I love you, yes I do. You and your pussy cat nose.
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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.
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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.
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One of the last things she said to me was I have to go, but you don’t have to! So don’t fall with me now!
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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!
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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.
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