Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Engelbert Humperdinck - Page 2

My first manager chose the name Engelbert Humperdinck for me. My real name is Arnold George Dorsey. It didn't really quite hit the entertainment industry the way it should have. But when my manager chose the name Engelbert Humperdinck, I had a hit record immediately, which was called 'Release Me.'

I like the name Engelbert. It's unusual. But Humperdinck? Not so much.

My family has always been important to me.

I don't have the slightest idea of how to do vocal exercises or scales or anything like that, but I did always know to breath properly from the stomach. I'm a pop singer and never really felt I needed more.

Eventually, when I recorded 'Release Me,' it sort of stamped my style, and I've followed in that vein ever since.

There is no harm in showing your feelings. It's not unmanly.

If I'm in a city I haven't been in before, I believe if I go into a church and ask a favor, it will be granted. It's part of my belief, and that's what I do.

I don't want to slow down. It's my life. I love being on the road and giving concerts.

I've seen many great performers on stage, from Dean Martin to Celine Dion, but nothing beats the first time I saw Elvis. There was no pomp, no pyrotechnics, nothing to distract you from the raw talent of the man in the white jumpsuit.

I have dreams where everything will disappear or go away, so I'm always working harder each year.

In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.

There are times when adverse publicity has hit my life, but these things are the growing pains of showbiz marriage.

At seventeen years old, I found out I could sing, and I got up and sang in a club, and I got a big hand, and I thought, 'I'm gonna continue this.' So that's how it all began.

I am a balladeer. People fall in love to ballads, and that is what makes the world go round.

My music has been my passport to the world, and it's been amazing for me.

My job is to entertain people and make them happy. I'm blessed to be able to do that.

I don't take my image seriously. I make fun of the fact that some people think I'm a romantic figure.

I have always looked after my little girl - my wife - and made sure she is in the safest hands possible at all times. She was always an unbelievably strong woman.

I'm a TV buff. I watch television.

When people hear romantic songs, they fall in love.

I play golf and ride my motorcycle - my Harley - around the hills of California.

I learned a lot from Elvis. He never took his image seriously. So many performers today put their image before themselves. It can ruin them. Like Elvis, I never took my image seriously.

I played to the biggest audience I've ever played to in my life in New Zealand. I couldn't see the end of the crowd. I understand it was over 200,000 people in a park somewhere.

In my concerts, I'm always doing new songs, so someone seeing me for the first time or many times before will be pleasantly surprised and hopefully entertained.

I think it's important to have a sense of humor. You have to be able to laugh at yourself.

There's something very special about playing Las Vegas, and I never tire of being here.

The job of an artist is to entertain and not get involved with politics. We give the people in the countries we are visiting a good show - that's the purpose of an entertainer.

Fifty - it's going to be for the rest of my life. I'm going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I'm 50, and act like I am, too. That's how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.

I have a very staunch following, and I've had fan clubs all over the world. And these people I term as my 'cheerleaders' - my 'spark plugs.'

I like Bruno Mars a lot. I think he's great.

There used to be Engelbert dolls with sideburns. Now they sell Elvis dolls with the sideburns, but I don't begrudge him that.

I love what I do, and I'm glad that people still love what I do. I'm booked, I come there, I do my job, and I hope they like what I bring to them.

My fans have supported me in concerts around the world regardless of how well my current album was selling.

I recorded songs with a great deal of meaning, songs of lasting material. That's the legacy I want to leave behind - a legacy of love.

In the end, I didn't think I was good enough to use sax as a stage performer to get where I wanted, and thank God I chose my voice as my instrument instead. You need to be honest with yourself, and I was.

When I walk on stage, it's a release valve for me. Life is stressful anyway, so therefore, when I walk on stage, it releases all those stressful situations, and I feel good about myself.

I have represented romance all my life. Some have called me the 'King of Romance.'

If you don't put out material that's going to last, you're not going to last.

When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.

I've been to New Zealand before, many times. And of course it has a significance to me because I do have something that's very special in New Zealand. I have '10 Guitars,' which is a very popular song, and I understand it's like the second national anthem over there.

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck.