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An old friend of mine is doing Buffalo Bill. The ensemble is quite terrific. It's got a great energy, and it's a thoroughly enjoyable evening.
-- Tom Wopat

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.
-- Tom Wopat

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.
-- Tom Wopat

I had no real specific dream, other than I really wanted to do musical comedy. Even before that, when I was a small child, I wanted to be a singer.
-- Tom Wopat

I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.
-- Tom Wopat

I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan.
-- Tom Wopat

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
-- Tom Wopat

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.
-- Tom Wopat

I was thinking it would be a great thing to get together with a pianist and work on the different song cycles again.
-- Tom Wopat

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.
-- Tom Wopat

I'm now getting cast more legitimately, I think, than what might have happened earlier in my career after Dukes.
-- Tom Wopat

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.
-- Tom Wopat

Irving Berlin just knows how to touch ya. It's a wonderful thing to discover this about music, even though I've loved music all my life.
-- Tom Wopat

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
-- Tom Wopat

It's expensive taking those jazz guys in-we had 18 strings for one day. We did the whole thing in about a week.
-- Tom Wopat

Stage musicals have always been the most fun, but it's hard to beat the time we had putting the record together.
-- Tom Wopat

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.
-- Tom Wopat

There have been a lot of really good reviews, and a few spectacular reviews. So far, we're batting at least 900.
-- Tom Wopat

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.
-- Tom Wopat

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.
-- Tom Wopat

These classic shows deserve to be revived. Otherwise, people have no context for these great songs which become such a visceral part of our awareness.
-- Tom Wopat

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
-- Tom Wopat

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
-- Tom Wopat

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.
-- Tom Wopat

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