B. J. Thomas

All I am is just another guy.

— B. J. Thomas

I was a huge R&B enthusiast.

— B. J. Thomas

Joining the Opry is a dream-come-true.

— B. J. Thomas

I try to be positive.

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I've got country in my musical roots.

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I've had a lot of hits in the business.

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Well, I need to do music.

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I've always been kind of a low-key guy.

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I'm not a Christian entertainer. I'm an entertainer who's Christian.

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I knew all about religion all my life; it just never was real to me.

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If a song really moves me, if I think it's a good song, I can do it.

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When I was a teenager I sang with some of my buddies.

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I love to record, I love the studio, but you love to play your music live.

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I want my music to have a positive effect on people.

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Many people early on actually thought I was a black performer!

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The only songs I would learn were songs that moved me emotionally.

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My dad, God bless him, had his problems and transferred them over to me. He was a huge hero to me, and…

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I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry on the radio, but when I was about 12 or 13, I fell in…

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I'm an upbeat person, especially when I'm onstage and when I'm involved with my music.

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I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining, because I'm free, nothing's worrying me.

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The greatest compliment a person could pay my music is to listen and sing along with it and think that he can…

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The lines and distinction between what's considered country and what's considered pop have really changed over the years.

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That's kind of one of the first cities where air conditioning kind of boomed was Houston. At one time, it was the…

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Trying to raise my self-image caused me to do everything in excess and defeat my own purpose.

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Really it has been a struggle to overcome some of the misconceptions that are put on you when you do something that…

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We were thinking of an excuse to go into the studio - me and Allan Schwartzberg and Bob Mann, my two guys…

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I'd been in the gospel business in the late '70s to the mid '80s, and I kind of left that situation. Then…

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I grew up in the city in Houston, Texas. We lived in three or four different places around Houston for most of…

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I think it's a really sad commentary when people who want to refer to themselves as quote-Christians-unquote would want to come out…

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I was always used to singing whatever I liked. I never did pay much attention to what genre it was. Of course,…

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I noticed as I was growing up, watching Jackie Wilson and Bobby Bland and those singers, that they seemed to believe wholly…

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I had had eight hits on the Top 20 chart before 'Raindrops,' but they were soon forgotten and so was I. Before…

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I made my first trip to Brazil in 1974.

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My Christian faith has sustained me.

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I developed a style with my own earmarks.

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Music for me is an emotional thing.

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I've always been a pop artist.

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Raindrops' is an American song.

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My Dad was just a working man. He was a good man and he loved music.

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I've only tried to record things that I really believe in and that I really feel.

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