"Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do." ― Johnny Mathis Topic(s): Famous More From Johnny Mathis "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." "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." More In Famous "The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I’m going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America."― John McCain "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."― Andy Warhol "I don’t actually have a lot of discipline. I’ve worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it."― Norah Jones