A biography for Engelbert Humperdinckhasn’t been written yet.
“The best feeling I get is when I walk on stage.”
“'La Marseillaise' sounds best ringing around a packed sports stadium. Its lyrics evoke revolution, conflict, taking up arms, preparing for the fight - everything my music does not! Even in our largely peaceful times, it retains its rousing, martial air that gives it a power that hasn't diminished.”
“Ghosts exist.”
“When I first got successful, I was particularly aware of being immaculate at all times, so I would get on a plane in one outfit, and get off in another. It doesn't happen in today's world, but when you are met by the press at both ends, you do have to.”
“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.”
“I'm a very good husband. And a very good father.”
“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 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.”
“There are so many people getting dementia. It is like an epidemic now. It is a terrible disease because once you get it, your life changes completely.”
“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.”
“I have a nine handicap in golf - I can always find time for a round - and I'm on my treadmill and cross-trainer every day.”
“I've always loved romantic songs.”
“My fans have supported me in concerts around the world regardless of how well my current album was selling.”
“When people hear romantic songs, they fall in love.”
“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.”
“In my early days, I sang rock stuff, but the career didn't kick until '67.”
“I have represented romance all my life. Some have called me the 'King of Romance.'”
“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.”
“I don't put faces on a dartboard. I just love the game, and I think I play it very well.”
“I had a home in Las Vegas for about eight years, starting in 1978.”