"Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do."
― Johnny Mathis
Topic(s):
Famous
More From Johnny Mathis
- "I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don’t. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do."
- "I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work."
- "It’s very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it."
More In Famous
- "At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was – almost daily meeting with famous men."― Ernest Thompson Seton
- "I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it."― Dave Chappelle
- "I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist."― Robert Crumb