All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
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Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.
- Bobby Vinton Quote

Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.
- Bobby Vinton Quote